The Idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as 'The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era' - Andrew J. From Absolute Prince to Despot: The Political Representations of Safavid Iran in Seventeenth-Century France - Aurélie Salesse-Chabrier, Université de Lyon, France 7. Safavid Town Planning - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK 6.
The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride - Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, USA 5. Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire - Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada 4. The Qazvin Period and the Idea of the Safavids - Gregory Aldous, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, USA 3. The Body Politic and the Rise of the Safavids - Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis, USA 2. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them. With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour. In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran.
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