Converting Persia : Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire
by
Rula Abisaab
Book Details
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
Ksh 4,700.00
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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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