تاریخ تشیع تاریخ ایران (بعد از اسلام) صفویان English 2009 Table of contents :,Contents......Page 8,Note on Transliteration......Page 10,Acknowledgements......Page 12,Cycles of Persian Mytho-history and Abrahamic Prophecy: Locating "Formational" Safavid Iran......Page 14,Working with Rhetoric and Letter-writing in Perso-Islamic History......Page 19,Inshā and Munshīs: A Discursive Forum......Page 24,The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Structure and Scope......Page 29,1. IMPERIALIZING THE APOCALYPSE 1501-32......Page 32,The Parousia (zuhūr) of Ismā ̀īl,1494-1514......Page 33,Heralding Noah's Flood: Messianic and Mystical Innovations in the Safavid Chancellery......Page 43,Recovery of Persian Bureaucratic Culture and the Imperializing of Epistolary Rhetoric, 1515-24......Page 59,Early Years of Shāh Tahmāsp and the Persian-Turk Paradigm, 1524-32......Page 71,2. COMPETING COSMOLOGIES, 1532-55......Page 81,Invective Rhetoric: al-Karakī and Models of Shi'ite Apologetic Discourse......Page 84,Qādī-yi Jahān Qazvīnī and the "Men of the Pen"......Page 101,Mystical Impulses and the Safavid Inshā Tradition......Page 108,Reorientation to Qazvīn and the East......Page 117,Solomonic Tropes......Page 133,Polychromatic Impulses: Abdī beg Shīrāzī and the Chancellery......Page 150,Shāh Ismā'īl II's Challenge to the Hierocrats......Page 158,The Emergence of a New Esprit de Corps under Khudādandah......Page 171,Narrating and Mapping a New Safavid Dominion, 1588-98......Page 189,Conclusion......Page 211,Notes......Page 216,Bibliography......Page 277,Index......Page 300 text Mitchell, Colin P Author Colin P. Mitchell Author book 9781845118907 1402-03-21 1402-10-03