The practice of politics in Safavid Iran
/ Colin P. Mitchell
The practice of politics in Safavid Iran
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/ Colin P. MitchellEdition 1
978-1-78076-096-4
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The practice of politics in Safavid Iran / / Colin P. MitchellPublication Details
لندن : : Tauris Academic Studies، 2012مPhysical Description
xii, 292 p.؛ ; 25 cm..Subject
IranHistory
Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736
Iran
Politics and government
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(I.B. Tauris & BIPS Persian studies series/ series editor Vanessa Martin, ISBN: 978-1-84885-203-7؛ ; 1)Language
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"A joint publication with the British Institute of Persian Studies".
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-286) and index.
"A joint publication with the British Institute of Persian Studies".
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-286) and index.
