The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric (British Institute of Persian Studies)

by Colin P . Mitchell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $198.68

  The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. This title examines how the state introduced and moulded a political discourse that reflected the social and religious heterogeneity of 16th-century Iran.