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Key Texts (5 items)
Iran: empire of the mind : a history from Zoroaster to the present day - Michael Axworthy,
2008
Book
Babur Nama: journal of Emperor Babur - Dilip Hiro, Annette Susannah Beveridge, Babur,
2006
Book
The rise and rule of Tamerlane - Beatrice Forbes Manz, 1999
Book
The Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals - Stephen Frederic Dale, 2010
Book
Persia in crisis: Safavid decline and the fall of Isfahan - Rudolph P. Matthee, 2012
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
General (19 items)
Iran: empire of the mind : a history from Zoroaster to the present day - Michael Axworthy,
2008
Book | A readable overview
The Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals - Stephen Frederic Dale, 2010
Book
The Cambridge history of inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age - 2009
Book
Encyclopaedia of Islam: Second edition - Brill Online
Website | Only the 2nd edition is complete, the 3rd ed. Is in progress. A standard
reference work, available electronically.
Encyclopaedia of Islam: THREE - Brill Online
Website | [= Third edition]
Encyclopaedia Iranica
Website | The standard reference work for all matters Iranian, more of less complete up
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Iran and the world in the Safavid age - Floor, Willem M., Herzig, Edmund, Iran Heritage
Foundation, 2012
Book
Central Asia in world history - Peter B. Golden, 2011
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Islam: a new historical introduction - Carole Hillenbrand, 2015
Book | (this is an excellent introduction to Islamic history and culture, and is required
reading if you have not previously done a course at sub-honours or honours level on the
pre-modern Middle East).
The Cambridge History of Iran: Vol. 6: The Timurid and Safavid periods - Peter Jackson,
Laurence Lockhart, 1986
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Islamic Central Asia: an anthology of historical sources - Levi, Scott Cameron, Sela, Ron,
2010
Book | (English translations of selections from major sources in Arabic, Persian and
Turkic languages).
Was Safavid Iran an Empire? - Rudi Matthee* Matthee, 2009
Article | Offers a useful consideration of the main features of the early modern state in
Iran.
Persian historiography - Melville, C. P., Persian Heritage Foundation (New York, N.Y.),
Columbia University, 2012
Book | A valuable collection of essays, some of which deal with Timurid and Safavid
historical writing.
Medieval Persia 1040-1797 - David Morgan, 2016
Book | 2nd edition
Medieval Persia 1040-1797 - Morgan, David, 1988
Book
The new Cambridge history of Islam: Volume 3: The Eastern Islamic world eleventh to
eighteenth centuries - 2010
Book
Safavid Iran: rebirth of a Persian empire - Andrew J. Newman, 2006
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Twelver Shiism: unity and diversity in the life of Islam, 632 to 1722 - Andrew J. Newman,
2013
Book | useful introduction to the main religious currents of the period
Iran under the Safavids - Savory, R. M., 1980
Book
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Week One: Turko-Mongol dynasties in Iranian and Middle Eastern
history: an overview (11 items)
'Introduction: The Turko-Persian Tradition' - R Canfield
Chapter
State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History - Nicola Di Cosmo, 1999
Article
The Mongols: Ecological and Social Perspectives - Joseph Fletcher
Article
What Was a Nomadic Tribe? - Rudi Paul Lindner, 1982
Article
The Mongols - Morgan, David, 2007
Book
The Great Seljuk Empire - A. C. S. Peacock, 2015
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Turanian Nomadism and Iranian Politics - John Masson Smith, Jr.
Article
Mongol nomadism and Middle Eastern geography: qishlaqs and tumens - John Masson
Smith Jnr
Chapter
The headless state: aristocratic orders, kinship society, & misrepresentations of nomadic
inner Asia - Sneath, David, 2007
Book
Ayimag, uymaq and baylik: Re-examining Notions of the Nomadic tribe and State - David
Sneath
Chapter
Anthropologists, historians, and tribespeople on tribe and state formation in the Middle
East - R. Tapper
Chapter
Week Two: The last great nomadic conqueror? Timur’s empire in
western Asia, 1360-1405 (17 items)
Embassy to Tamerlane: 1403-1406 - González de Clavijo, Ruy, Le Strange, G., 1928
Book
Ibn Khaldun: life and times - Fromherz, Allen James, 2010
Book
Tamerlane, or Timur, the Great Amir: from the Arabic life / by Ahmed Ibn Arabshah - Ibn
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`Arabshah, A.hmad ibn Mu.hammad, Sanders, J. H., 1936
Book
Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane: their historic meeting in Damascus, 1401 A.D. (803 A.H.0 : a
study based on Arabic manuscripts of Ibn Khaldun's "Autobiography" : with a translation
into English, and a commentary - Fischel, Walter Joseph, 1952
Book
The Rise of Timur and Western Diplomatic Response, 1390-1405 - Adam Knobler, 1995
Article
Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty - Beatrice Forbes Manz, 1988
Article
Temür and the Problem of a Conqueror's Legacy - Beatrice Forbes Manz, 1998
Article
The rise and rule of Tamerlane - Manz, Beatrice Forbes, 1989
Book
Tamerlane's Career and Its Uses - Beatrice Forbes Manz
Article
Temür and the early Timurids to c. 1450 - Beatrice Forbes Manz
Chapter
A note on the life and works of Ibn ‘Arabshah - R. Chesney
Chapter
'The Empire of Tamerlane: an unsuccessful rerun of the Mongol state?' - D Morgan
Chapter
Timur as Described by the 15th Century Court Historiographers - E. A. Polyakova and E. A.
Poliakova, 1988
Article
'V.V. Bartol'd's Article 'O Pogrebenii Timura' (The Burial of Timur'' - J.M. Rogers, 1974
Article
The legendary biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and heroic apocrypha in Central Asia Sela, Ron, 2011
Book
The Rise of Tīmūrid Historiography - John E. Woods, 1987
Article
Timur’s genealogy
Chapter
Week Three: From yasa to shari‘a: religion, society and the court in the
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Timurid state (18 items)
Sufi bodies: religion and society in medieval Islam - Bashir, Shahzad, 2011
Book
Messianic hopes and mystical visions: the Nurbakhshiya between medieval and modern
Islam - Bashir, Shahzad, 2003
Book
Intellectual networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī and the Islamicate republic of
letters - İlker Evrim Binbaş, 2016
Book
Economy vi. in the Timurid Period in Encyclopaedia Iranica December 8 2011 (December
15, 1997)
Webpage
The Economic Status of a Timurid Sufi Shaykh: A Matter of Conflict or Perception? - Jo-Ann
Gross, 1988
Article
The letters of Khwaja `Ubayd Allah Arar and his associates - Arar, `Ubayd Allah ibn Mamud,
Alisher Navoii, Gross, Jo-Ann, Urunbaev, A., Abu Raihon Berunii nomidagi Sharqshunoslik
instituti, 2002
Book
A Fifteenth-Century Chinese Diplomat in Herat - Felicia J. Hecker, 1993
Article
Timur and the princely vision: Persian art and culture in the fifteenth century - Lentz,
Thomas W., Lowry, Glenn D., 1989
Book
Women in Timurid dynastic politics - B. Manz
Chapter
Power, politics and religion in Timurid Iran - Beatrice Forbes Manz, 2007
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Ulugh Beg, Transoxiana and Turco-Mongol traditions - B. Manz
Chapter
Waqf in central Asia: 400 years in the history of a Muslim shrine ; 1480 - 1889 MacChesney, Robert D., 1991
Book
Between Tabriz and Herat: Persian Historical Writing in the Fifteenth Century - C Melville
Chapter
Centralizing Reform and Its Opponents in the Late Timurid Period - Maria Eva Subtelny,
1988
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‘Ali Shir Nava’i: Bakhshi and Beg’ - Maria Eva Subtelny, 1980
Article
Timurids in transition: Turko-Persian politics and acculturation in medieval Iran - Subtelny,
Maria, 2007
Book
Tamerlane and his descendants: from paladins to patrons - Maria E. Subtelny
Chapter | Chapter 5.
A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art (Complete Publication) - Wheeler
J Thakston, 2013
Webpage
Week Four: Lamenting the lost land of Ferghana: Babur, the Uzbeks
and Timurid legitimacy (16 items)
The Baburnama: memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor - Babur, Thackston, W. M., Freer
Gallery of Art, 1996
Book
Lords of the auspicious conjunction: Turko-Mongol imperial identity on the subcontinent L. Balabanlilar
Article
Imperial identity in Mughal India: memory and dynastic politics in early modern Central
Asia - Balabanlilar, Lisa, 2011
Book
The Cambridge history of inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age - 2009
Book | Read: 'Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmens' - Y. Bregel
Steppe Humanism: The Autobiographical Writings of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur,
1483-1530 - Stephen Frederic Dale, 1990
Article
The Poetry and Autobiography of the Babur-nama - Stephen F. Dale, 1996
Article
The garden of the eight paradises: Babur and the culture of empire in Central Asia,
Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) - Dale, Stephen Frederic, 2004
Book
The legacy of the Timurids - Stephen Frederic Dale
Chapter | Chapter 6 in S. Levi (ed), India and Central Asia: Commerce and Culture,
1500-1800 (New Delhi 2007)
The later Timurids c. 1450-1526
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A short history of the Mughal Empire - Michael Herbert Fisher, 2016
Book | (esp. chs. 1and 2)
Mughal India and Central Asia - Foltz, Richard, 2001
Book
The early history of the Moghul nomads: the legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate - H Kim
Chapter
Mirza Haydar Dughlat's Tarikh-i-Rashidi: a history of the Khans of Moghulistan - Haydar
Mirzâ, Thackston, W. M., Harvard University, 1996
Book
The Cambridge history of inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age - 2009
Book | Read: 'The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia' - R. McChesney
S
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ībānids - (article in Encylopaedia of Islam ) - R. McChesney, 1341
Article
The empire of the great Mughals: history, art and culture - Schimmel, Annemarie B.,
Attwood, Corinne, Waghmar, Burzine K., 2010
Book
Week Five: The Turkmen in the west: the Karakoyunlu and Akkoyunlu
(late 14th-15th centuries) (19 items)
A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the fifteenth and sixteen centuries - Grey,
Charles, Angiolello, Giovan Maria, Alessandri, Vincentio d', 1873
Book
Mehmed the Conqueror and his time - Babinger, Franz, 1978
Book
Greeks and Turkmens: The Pontic Exception - Anthony Bryer, 1975
Article
Osman's dream: the story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 - Finkel, Caroline, 2005
Book | Especially chapters 2-4.
Heroes and saints in Anatolian Turkish epic literature - Gottfried Hagen, 2009
Article
Jāmī's Salāmān va Absāl: Political Statements and Mystical Advice Addressed to the Āq
Qoyūnlū Court of Sultān Ya‘qūb (d. 896/1490) - Chad G. Lingwood, 2011
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Article
The Dede Korkut Ethic - Michael E. Meeker, 1992
Article
The Delicate Art of Aggression: Uzun Hasan's Fathnama to Qaytbay of 1469 - Matthew
Melvin-Koushki, 2011
Article
A Civil and Military Review in Fārs in 881/1476 - V. Minorsky, 1940
Article
Jihān-Shāh Qara-Qoyunlu and His Poetry (Turkmenica, 9) - V. Minorsky, 1954
Article
The Qara-qoyunlu and the Qutb-shāhs (Turkmenica, 10) - V. Minorsky, 1955
Article
The Aq-qoyunlu and Land Reforms (Turkmenica, 11) - V. Minorsky, 1955
Article
Persia in A.D. 1478-1490: an abridged translation of
Fad
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lullāh b. Rūzbihān Khunjī's Tārīkh-i ʻālam-ārā-yi Amīnī - Vladimir Minorsky,
Faz
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l Allāh ibn Rūzbahān, 1957
Book
Between nomadism and centralization: the Ottoman alternative in the history of the
Aqquyunlu state - S. Mustafayev
Chapter
The Cambridge History of Iran: Vol. 6: The Timurid and Safavid periods - Peter Jackson,
Laurence Lockhart, 1986
Book | Read: ‘The Türkmen dynasties’ - H Roemer. Available in the library and as an
e-book.
The book of Dede Korkut - Geoffrey Lewis, 1974
Book
Turco-Iranica I: An Ottoman Intelligence Report on Late Fifteenth/Ninth Century Iranian
Foreign Relations - John E. Woods, 1979
Article
The Aqquyunlu: clan, confederation, empire - John E. Woods, 1999
Book
‘Post-Mongol pastoral polities in eastern Anatolia during the later Middle Ages’ - S.N. Yildiz
Chapter
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Week Six: Messianic ideology and tribal armies: the rise and fall of
Ismail Safavi (16 items)
A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the fifteenth and sixteen centuries - Grey,
Charles, Angiolello, Giovan Maria, Alessandri, Vincentio d', 1873
Book
Religious extremism (ghuluww), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran (1501-1722 - Said
Amir Arjomand, 1981
Article
The Safavid Synthesis: From Qizilbash Islam to Imamite Shi'ism - Kathryn Babayan, 1994
Article
Mystics, monarchs, and messiahs: cultural landscapes of early modern Iran - Babayan,
Kathryn, 2002
Book
After the Messiah: the Nurbakhshiyya in late Timurid and early Safavid times - S. Bashir
Chapter
Shah Ismaʿil and the Qizilbash: Cannibalism in the Religious History of Early Safavid Iran Shahzad Bashir, 2006
Article
The most learned of the Shiʻa: the institution of the Marjaʻ taqlid - Linda S. Walbridge, 2001
Book | Read: ‘The imam’s return: messianic leadership in late medieval Shiism’ by
Shahzad Bashir. (In Part 1)
The myth of Shah Ismail Safavi: political rhetoric and "Divine" kingship - P. Brummet
Chapter
Medieval Christian perceptions of Islam: a book of essays - John Victor Tolan, 1996
Book
The origins of the Safawids: Siism, Sufism, and the Gulat - Mazzaoui, Michel M., 1972
Book
The Poetry of Shāh Ismā'īl I - V. Minorsky and Shāh Ismā'īl I, 1942
Article
Extremist Shiites: the Ghulat sects - Moosa, Matti, 1987
Book
The early years of Shah Ismaʿil in the Afzal al-tavarikh and elsewhere - A.H. Morton
Chapter | Available on MMS
The Dreams of Shaykh Safi al-Din and Safavid Historical Writing - Sholeh A. Quinn, 1996
Article
The Safavid dynastic shrine: architecture, religion and power in early modern Iran - Rizvi,
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Book
The Tabarra'iyan and the Early Safavids - Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, 2004
Article
Week Seven: From tribe to state: religious politics, the Safavids and
their enemies, 1524-1588 (15 items)
Converting Persia: Religion and power in the Safavid Empire - Rula Jurdi Abisaab, 2004
Book
The shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: religion, political order, and societal change in
Shi'ite Iran from the beginning to 1890 - Said Amir Arjomand, 1987
Book
‘The Shaybanid Uzbeks, Moghuls and Safabids in Eastern Iran’ - B Dahmardeh
Chapter
Dickson, M. 'Shah Tahmasp and the Uzbeks: the dual for Khurasan with the 'Ubayd Khan'
(PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1958) (available for free download: login to
Proquest dissertation database through the library)
The conquest of Herat 995-6/1587-8: sources for the study of
Safavid/Qizilbash-Shibanid/Uzbak relations - R. McChesney
Chapter
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542) - Membré, Michele, Morton, A. H., Trustees
of the "E.J.W. Gibb Memorial.", 1999
Book
Practice of politics in Sfavid Iran - Mitchell, Colin P., 2012
Book
New perspectives on Safavid Iran: empire and society - Colin Paul Mitchell, 2011
Book | Read: ‘Am I my brother’s keeper? Negotiating corporate sovereignty and divine
absolutism in sixteenth century Turco-Iranian politics’. Available in the library and as an
e-book.
Rethinking Safavid Shiism - D. Morgan
Chapter
The chub-i tariq and Qizilbash ritual in Safavid Persia - A. Morton
Chapter
The Qizilbash Turcomans: founders and victims of the Safavid theocracy - H.R. Roemer
Chapter
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The early Safavids and their cultural interaction with surrounding states - A. Soudavar
Chapter
New perspectives on Safavid Iran: empire and society - Colin Paul Mitchell, 2011
Book | Read: Subtelny, M. ‘The binding pledge (mögälchä): a Chinggisid practice and its
survival in Safavid Iran’.
Available in the library and as an e-book.
Kinship ties between the Safavids and the Qizilbash Amirs in late 16th-century Iran - M.
Szuppe
Chapter
‘Looking across the frontier: a Shaybanid (non-)view of the early Safavid state’ - M Szuppe
Chapter
Week Eight: Shah Abbas, Isfahan and the Iranian revival, 1588-1629 (21
items)
Isfahan and its palaces: statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early
modern Iran - Babaie, Sussan, 2008
Book
Slaves of the Shah: new elites of Safavid Iran - Babaie, Sussan, 2002
Book
Half the world: the social architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 - Blake, Stephen P.,
1999
Book
Shah Abbas: the ruthless king who become an Iranian legend - Blow, David, 2009
Book
Shah 'Abbas and the remaking of Iran - Canby, Sheila R., British Museum, 2009
Book
Two 17th-century Persian tracts on kingship and rulers - W. Chittick
Chapter | in S.A. Arjomand (ed.), Authority and Political Culture in Shiʿism(Albany 1988)
Shah Abbas and the transfer of the Safavid capital from Qazvin to Isfahan - S. Dale
Chapter | in A. Newman (ed.), Society and Culture in the early modern Middle East:
Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period
The history of Shah `Abbas the Great =: Tarik-e `alamara-ye `Abbasi - Iskandar Munshi,
1978
Book
The "ṣadr" or head of the Safavid religious administration, judiciary and endowments and
other members of the religious institution - Willem Floor, 2000
Article
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Safavid government institutions - Willem M. Floor, 2001
Book
The Khalifeh al-kholafa of the Safavid Sufi Order - Willem Floor, 2003
Article
A Note on The Grand Vizierate in Seventeenth Century Persia - Willem Floor, 2005
Article
The Evolution of the Safavid Royal Guard - Masashi Haneda, 1989
Article
‘The deportation of the Armenians in 1604-1605 and Europe’s myth of Shah Abbas I’ - E
Herzig
Chapter
Messiah and Mahdi: Caucasian Christians and the construction of Safavid Isfahan - Loosley,
Emma, 2009
Book
On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran - H. Maeda,
2003
Article
Exploitation of a frontier: Shah ‘Abbas I’s policy towards the Caucasus - H Maeda
Chapter
From Qars to Qandahar: the itineraries of Shah 'Abbas I - C. Melville
Chapter | Request digi
Shah Abbas and the pilgrimage to Mashhad - Charles Melville
Chapter | in C. Melville (ed.), Safavid Persia: the History and Politics of an Islamic
Society (London 1996)
Notes on Timurid Legitimacy in Three Safavid Chronicles - Sholeh A. Quinn, 1998
Article
Historical writing during the reign of Shah `Abbas: ideology, imitation, and legitimacy in
Safavid chronicles - Sholeh Alysia Quinn, 2000
Book
Week Nine: The Safavids and the Wider World: Trade and Diplomacy (14
items)
Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800 - Alam, Muzaffar,
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, 2007
Book | Especially chapters 5 and 6.
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the global trade networks of Armenian
merchants from New Julfa - Aslanian, Sebouh David, 2011
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The shah's silk for Europe's silver: the Eurasian trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran
and India (1530 - 1750) - McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz, 1998
Book
Travels in Persia, 1673-1677 - Chardin, John, 1988
Book
Chardin, Sir John - Encyclopaedia Iranica, October 13, 2011 (December 15, 1991)
Article
Iran and the world in the Safavid age - Floor, Willem M., Herzig, Edmund, 2012
Book
Pietro della Valle: The Limits of Perception - J. D. Gurney, 1986
Article
European contacts with Persia, 1350-1736 - L Lockhart
Chapter
The Iranian-Siamese Connection: An Iranian Community in the Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya
- M. Ismail Marcinkowski, 2002
Article
‘Holier than Thou: Buddhism and the Thai people in Ibn Muhammad Ibrahim’s 17th century
travel account Safineh-yi Solaymani’ - I Marcinkowski, 2002
Article
The politics of trade in Safavid Iran: silk for silver, 1600-1730 - Matthee, Rudolph P., 1999
Book
The ship of Sulaiman - O'Kane, John, 2008
Book
European Visitors to the Safavid Court - Roger Stevens, 1974
Article
Iranians Abroad: Intra-Asian Elite Migration and Early Modern State Formation - Sanjay
Subrahmanyam, 1992
Article
Week Ten. Religion, literature and art in Timurid and Safavid Persia (12
items)
The Persian Book of kings: Ibrahim Sultan's Shahnama - F. I. Abdullaeva, C. P. Melville,
c2008
Book
Epic of the Persian kings: the art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh - Barbara Brend, C. P. Melville,
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Book | A useful collection of essays.
Ferdowsi and the illustration of the Shahnameh - J. Clinton
Chapter
Ferdowsi, Abu’l-Qāsem i. Life
Webpage
Khusrau Parviz as Champion of Shiʿism? A Closer Look at an Early Safavid Miniature
Painting in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh - U. al-Khamis
Chapter
From palm leaves to the Internet - Fred Leemhuis
Chapter | Chapter 7.
Timur and the princely vision: Persian art and culture in the fifteenth century - Thomas W.
Lentz, Glenn D. Lowry, 1989
Book | Especially the chapter on the Kitabkhana
The art of the Qurʼan: treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts - Massumeh
Farhad, Simon Rettig, François Déroche, Edhem Eldem, Zeren Tanındı, Jane Dammen
McAuliffe, Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi, 2016
Book | Read: Rettig, S. 'Shaping the word of God: visual codifications of the Qur'an
between 1000 and 1700'.
The Suggestive Portrait of Shah 'Abbas: Prayer and Likeness in a Safavid "Shahnama" Kishwar Rizvi, 2012
Article
Centralisation and Timurid creativity - J. Michael Rogers, 1996
Article
The Samarqand Shahnamas in the context of dynastic change - K. Ruehrdanz
Chapter | in C. Melville and G. van den Berg (eds), Shahnama Studies II: The Reception
of Firdausi’s Shahnama (Leiden 2012)
Šāh-nāma iv. Illustrations
Webpage
Week Eleven: The fall of the Safavids and Retrospect: the Timurid
legacy (20 items)
The sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from tribal warrior to conquering tyrant - Axworthy,
Michael, 2006
Book | Especially the first chapters.
'Majlesi, Moḥammad-Bāqer' (article from Encyclopaedia Iranica) - R. Brunner
Webpage | Online only.
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The Fall of the Ṣafavi Dynasty - Martin B. Dickson, 1962
Article
Crisis before the Fall: Some Speculations on the Decline of the Ottomans, Safavids and
Mughals - Rohan D'souza, 2002
Article
‘An Ottoman ambassador in Istanbul: Dürri Ahmad Efendi and the collapse of the Safavid
empire in 1720-21’ - S Faroqhi
Chapter
The Afghan occupation of Safavid Persia, 1721-1729 - Floor, Willem M., 1998
Book
The rise and fall of Nader Shah: Dutch East India Company reports, 1730-1747 - Floor,
Willem M., c2009
Book
The Long Fall of the Safavid Dynasty: Moving beyond the Standard Views - John Foran,
1992
Article
Scripturalist Islam: the history and doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʻī school - R. Gleave, 2007
Book
The fire, the star, and the cross: minority religions in medieval and early modern Iran Khanbaghi, Aptin, 2006
Book | Especially the final chapter.
‘The tribal resurgence and the decline of the bureaucracy in the eighteenth century’ - A
Lambton
Chapter
The fall of the Safavi dynasty and the Afghan occupation of Persia - Lockhart, Laurence,
1958
Book
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, family values and the Safavids - S. Mahdavi
Chapter
The Career of Mohammad Beg, Grand Vizier of Shah 'Abbas II (r. 1642-1666) - Rudi
Matthee, 1991
Article
Persia in crisis: Safavid decline and the fall of Isfahan - Matthee, Rudolph P., Iran Heritage
Foundation, 2012
Book
Tadhkirat al-muluk: a manual of afavid administration (circa 1137/1725), Persian text in
facsimile (B.M. Or. 9496) - Minorsky, Vladimir, British Library, 1943
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Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: The Iranian World from the
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Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722) | University of St Andrews
‘The last Safavids, 1722-1773’ - J Perry, 1971
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The Man Who Would Not Be King: Abu'l-Fath Sultan Muhammad Mirza Safavi in India Giorgio Rota, 1999
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Relations between the Safavid State and its Non-Muslim Minorities - Roger M. Savory
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Islam without Allah?: the rise of religious externalism in Safavid Iran - Turner, C., 2000
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