Converting Persia : Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire

Name: Converting Persia
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781780767789
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ISBN: 9781780767789

by Rula Abisaab

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1780767781

ISBN-13 9781780767789

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 2nd, 2015

Print length 262 Pages

Weight 304 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.70 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Middle Eastern history Islam Cultural studies Social groups: religious groups and communities Cultural studies Islamic studies Middle Eastern history Islam

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Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE), Persia adopted Shi'ism as its official religion. The author explains how and why this specific brand of Shi'ism - urban and legally-based - was brought to the region by leading Arab 'Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and changed the face of the region till this day.

''Converting Persia'' explains how Iran was to acquire one of its defining characteristics: its Shi''ism. Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE), Persia adopted Shi''ism as its official religion. Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi''ism - urban and legally-based - was brought to the region by leading Arab ''Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and changed the face of the region till this day. These emigre scholars furnished distinct sources of legitimacy for the Safavid monarchs, and an ideological defense against the Ottomans. Just as important at the time was a conscious and vivid process of Persianization both at the state level and in society. Converting Persia is vital reading for anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, and any interested in Safavid Persia, in Shi''ism, and in the wider history of the Middle East.

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