| Title: | Chronicling a dynasty on the make: new light on the early Ṣafavids in Ḥayātī Tabrīzī‘s Tārīkh (961/1554) |
| Author: | Kioumars Ghereghlou |
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| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | American Oriental Society |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 28 |
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| File: | PDF, 4.18 MB |
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Kioumars Ghereghlou. Chronicling a dynasty on the make: new light on the early Ṣafavids in Ḥayātī Tabrīzī’s Tārīkh (961/1554) // Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 137, No. 4. Published by American Oriental Society. — October-December 2017, pp. 805-832.
Abstract
This article studies Qāsim Beg Ḥayātī Tabrīzī’s unpublished account of Ṣafavid history, which has long been considered lost. Ḥayātī’s account – dedicated, in 961/1554, to Shah Ṭahmāsp’s sister, Princess Mihīn Begum (d. 969/1562) – spans the period between the formative years of the Ṣafaviyya Sufi order under Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥāq Ardabīlī (d. 735/1334) and the early years of the reign of Shah Ismāʿīl (907-30/1501-24). Emphasis is given to the way in which it fills in the gaps of our knowledge insofar as the pre-dynastic and early dynastic phases of Ṣafavid history as well as the administrative history of the Ṣafavid shrine in Ardabīl are concerned.