The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric

by Colin P. Mitchell

Book Overview

The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. Here Colin Mitchell examines how the Safavid state introduced and moulded a unique and vibrant political discourse which reflected the social and religious heterogeneity of sixteenth-century Iran. Beginning with the millenarian-minded Shah Isma'il and concluding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845118901
• ISBN13: 9781845118907
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"