Abstract
It has been now more than a quarter of a century since the publication of Roger Savory's Iran Under the Safavids (Cambridge, 1980). Andrew J. Newman's study aims to provide a new and up-to-date overview on the state-of-art of Safavid studies, reflecting the results of the extensive research that have been achieved since the Iranian revolution. Quantitatively speaking, the book is not overly voluminous; roughly 130 pages of narrative are complemented with approximately the same extent of pages containing notes and two appendices, the first providing a basic chronological overview, the second a chronologically ordered bibliography of editions, and when available, translations of key chronicles and travelogues. For the period 1628 to 1642 one might add here the German translation by Gerhard Rettelbach of Muḥammad Maʾṣūm al-Iṣfahānī's Hulāsat al-siyar (Gerhard Rettelbach, Khulāsat as-siyar. Der Iran unter Schah Ṣafī (1629–1642) nach der Chronik des Muḥammad Maʿṣūm b. Huāğagī Iṣfahānī, Munich: Trofenik, 1978).
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