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Article: Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles. (Reviews of Books).
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah [Abbas.sup.[subset]]: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles. By SHOLEH A. QUINN. Salt Lake City: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS, 2000. Pp. xiv + 197.
The study of Persian historiography (as opposed to the mining for information of historical texts) is still in its infancy. Sholeh Quinn's analysis of Safavid chronicles makes a major contribution to the growing field of interest, not merely in what historians wrote, but in how and why they wrote. Quinn describes her project as "discovering the chroniclers' models, outlining the conventions of historical writing to which they adhered, isolating examples of ...