Safavid dynasty
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An early modern Pax Islamica
Reviewing The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, the author praises its short comparative frame, noting that the three dynasties differed in religious basis: Ottoman ghazis, the Safavid…
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Semitised Iran, Aryanised India
X.T.M argues that modern Persian identity owes more to Safavid and Islamic-era figures such as Sa’adi, Ferdowsi and Hafez than to Achaemenid or Sasanian pride, and that Persian has wrapped…
