Iran under the Safavids

Cambridge University Press

1980

277 p.

0521224837

The Lords of Ardabīl -- Theocratic state: the reign of Shāh Ismāʻīl I (1501-1524) -- Internal dissensions and external foes: the Safavid state from 1524 to 1588 -- The Safavid empire at the height of its power under ShahʻAbbās the Great (1588-1629) -- Relations with the West during the Safavid period -- The flowering of the arts under the Safavids -- "Iṣfahān is half the world" -- Shah ʻAbbās's Iṣfahān -- The social and economic structure of the Safavid state --Intellectual life under the Safavids -- Decline and fall of the Safavids.

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