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Article: Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 1998
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Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. Edited by Charles Melville. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996. Pp. xi, 426. $19.95.)
This collection of articles is the result of the second round table on Safavid Persia (1501-1722) and is proof of the growing interest in the study of this important, but rather neglected, field of Persian history. The emphasis of most articles is on historiography: why and how do the Safavid chroniclers tell us what? We learn that their style was to a great extent a continuation of the Timurid tradition. Despite the stylized approach to history, use was made of oral history as well, and illustrations ...