Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire by Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire

Rula Jurdi Abisaab

256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE) Persia adopted Shi'ism as its official religion. Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi'ism--urban and legally-based--was brought to the region by leading Arab 'Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and ...

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