Abstract

Bringing together, on the one hand, the fields of Persian letters, rhetoric and the art of insā and, on the other, the multiple expressions of Safavid dynastic legitimacy, this detailed study offers us a fascinating new view of the cultural landscape of the early Safavid realm. Different layers of Safavid claims to legitimacy contain references to pre-Islamic Iran’s mythical history, the prophetic cycle of Abrahamic religions, and Imamite and Alide hagiographies, not to mention allusions to T...

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