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The practice of politics in Safavid Iran

978-1-78076-096-4

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556296

انگلیسی

IR

The practice of politics in Safavid Iran

[Book]

: power, religion and rhetoric

/ Colin P. Mitchell

London

: Tauris Academic Studies

, 2012

xii, 292 p.

; 25 cm.

I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian studies series/ series editor Vanessa Martin, ISBN: 978-1-84885-203-7

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انگليسي

"A joint publication with the British Institute of Persian Studies"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-286) and index

Introduction.- Cycles of Persian Mytho-history and Abrahamic Prophecy: Locating “Formational” Safavid Iran.- Working with Rhetoric and Letter-writing in Perso-Islamic History.- Between Jamsh'd and 'Al: Structure and Scope.- Imperializing the Apocalypse, 1501-1532.- The Parousia (Zuhur) of Isma'il, 1494-1514.- Heralding Noah's Flood: Messianic and Mystical Innovations in the Safavid Chancellery.- Recovery of Persian Bureaucratic Culture and the Imperializing of Epistolary Rhetoric.- Tahmasp’s Early Rule and the Persian-Turk Paradigm.- Competing Cosmologies, 1532-1555.- Invective Rhetoric: al-Karaki and Models of Shi`ite Apologetic Discourse.- Qazi-yi Jahan Qazvini and the Men of the Pen.- Mystical Impulses and the Safavid Insha Tradition.- The Second Repentance, 1555-1576.- Reorientation to Qazvin and the East.- Solomonic Tropes.- Polychromatic Impulses: 'Abd Beg Sh'razi and the Chancellery.- Rex Redux, 1576-1598.- Shah Isma'il II’s Challenge to the Hierocrats.- The Emergence of a New Esprit de Corps Under Khudabandah.- Narrating and Mapping a New Safavid Dominion, 1588-1598.- References.- Index

Iran -- History -- Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736

Iran -- Politics and government

Mitchell

, Colin Paul

, author

Iran

Central Library Of Tehran University

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