Melville Ch. (ed.) / Мэлвилл Ч. (ред.) - Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society / Персия при Сефевидах. История и политика исламского общества [историография, история, 1996, PDF, ENG]

Foreword 7 HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 13 The historiography of Safavid prefaces 15 The Early Years of Shah Isma'il in the Afzal al-tavarikh and Elsewhere 41 The Iconography of the Shah-nama-yi Shahi 67 Kinship Ties between the Safavids and the Qizilbash Amirs in Late Sixteenth-Century Iran: a Case Study of the Political Career of Members of the Sharaf al-Din Ogli Tekelu Family 93 Le Dar al-Saltana de Qazvin, deuxieme capitale des Safavides 119 Sufis, Dervishes and Mullas: the Controversy over Spiritual and Temporal Dominion in Seventeenth-Century Iran 131 Shici Rituals and Power II. The Consolidation of Safavid Shicism: Folklore and Popular Religion 153 Shah 'Abbas and the Pilgrimage to Mashhad 205 "Barrier of Heterodoxy"?: Rethinking the Ties between Iran and Central Asia in the Seventeenth Century 245 SAFAVID PERSIA. SOCIETY AND COMMERCE 283 Persian during the Safavid Period: Sketch for an Etat de Langue 285 Similar Farmans from the Reign of Shah Safi 301 The Rise of the Julfa Merchants in the Late Sixteenth Century 321 The Dutch and the Persian Silk Trade 339 The Character of the Urbanisation of Isfahan in the Later Safavid Period 385 Unwalled Cities and Restless Nomads: Firearms and Artillery in Safavid Iran 408 General Index 436