Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society.(Review)(Brief Article)

The Historian | September 22, 1998| | Copyright

Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. Edited by Charles Melville. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996. Pp. xi, 426. $19.95.)

This collection of articles is the result of the second round table on Safavid Persia (1501-1722) and is proof of the growing interest in the study of this important, but rather neglected, field of Persian history. The emphasis of most articles is on historiography: why and how do the Safavid chroniclers tell us what? We learn that their style was to a great extent a continuation of the Timurid tradition. ...

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