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 ...

The Safavid empire fought the Ottomans frequently with mixed success. Their wars fixed the Zagros Mountains as the western border of Iran down to the modern times. Safavid power and culture flourished ...

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 ...

But however cosmopolitan the style and skill, this alam was made specifically for use in a Shi'a Muslim ceremony. The blade of the sword has been transformed into a filigree of words and pattern, and ...

Situated at the crossroads of Iran’s north-south and east-west trade routes, Isfahan reached its zenith between the 9th and 18th centuries. During the Safavid era, it became Iran’s capital under Shah ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In 1722, the Safavid empire collapsed. An empire that ruled for over two centuries, in its heyday it spanned parts of Central Asia, the ...

which flourished in the 16th and 17th Centuries as the capital of the Safavid dynasty Similar drone attacks have been reported in other parts of Iran in recent years. Israel has not confirmed it ...

TEHRAN - A historic wall painting depicting the English diplomat Sir Anthony Shirley (1565–1635) has been restored and ...