The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

Iran Under the Safavids aims at providing the student and general reader, in non-technical language, with a comprehensive history of the Safavid dynasty. Professor Savory considers the origins of the ...

People were out and about as normal on Friday in Isfahan, which flourished in the 16th and 17th Centuries as the capital of the Safavid dynasty Similar drone attacks have been reported in other ...