Roger M. Savory Studies on the History of Safawid Iran VARIORUM REPRINTS London 1987 British Library CIP data Savory, R. M. Studies on the history of Safawid Iran. - (Collected studies series; CS256) 1. Iran - History- 16th-18th centuries l. Title 955' .03 DS292 ISBN 0--86078-204-2 Copyright© 1987 by Variorum Reprints Published in Great Britain by Variorum Reprints 20 Pembridge Mews London Wll 3EQ Printed in Great Britain by Galliard (Pri nters) Ltd Great Yarmouth Norfolk V ARIORUM REPRINT CS256 CONTENTS Preface IX-Xlll THE RISE OF THE SAFA WIDS TO POWER I The Struggle for Supremacy in Persia after the Death of Timiir 35-65 Der Islam 40. Berlin, 1964 '· II A 15th-Century Safavid Propagandist .at Harat 189-197 American Oriental Society, Middle West Branch, Semi-Centennial Volume: a collection of original essays, ed. D. Sinor (Asian Studies Research Institute, dir. D. Sinor, Oriental Series No. 3). Bloomington, Indiana - London: Indiana University Press, 1969 III The Consolidation of Safawid Power in Persia 71- 94 Der Islam 41 . Berlin, 1965 THE $AFAWID ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM IV The Principal Offices of the Safawid State during the Reign of Isma'll I (907-30/1501-24) 91-105 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, XXJII. London, 1960 vi v The Principal Offices of the $afawid State during the Reign of Tahmasp I (930-84/1524-76) 65-85 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, XXIV. London, 1961 VI Some Notes on the Provincial Administration of the Early Safawid Empire 114-128 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, XXVI/. London, 1964 VII A Secretarial Career under Shah Tahmasp I (1524-1576) 343-352 Islamic Studies, Journal of the Central Institute of Islamic Research, Karachi, ll. Karachi, 7963 THE$AFAWID STATE AND POLITY VIII The Emergence of the Modern Persian State under the Safavids 1-44 lran-Shinasi, Journal of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Le11ers and Humanities, Tehran University, 11 no. 2. Tehran, 1971 IX The Safavid State and Polity 179-212 Studies on lsfahan, Proceedings of The lsfaha11 Colloquium, 1974, Part I, ed. R. Holod = Iranian Studies Vil. Chesmut Hill, Mass. , 1974 x Some Reflections on Totalitarian Tendencies in the Safavid State 226-241 Der Islam 53. Berlin, 1976 XI The Sherley Myth 73- 81 Iran, Joumal ofthe British institute of Persian Swdies, V. London, 1967 vii XII "Very Dull and Arduous Reading": A Reappraisal of The History ofShah 'Abbiis the Great by lskandar Beg Munshi 19-37 Hamdard lslamicus, Quarterly Journal of the Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan, /II no./. Karachi, 1980 ETHNIC AND IDEOLOGICAL TENSIONS IN THE SAFAWID ST ATE XIII The Office of Khalifat al-Khulafii under the Safawids .+97- 502 Journal of the American Oriental Society85. New Haven, Conri. , 1965 XIV A Curious Episode of Safavid History 461-473 Iran and Islam, in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, ed. C. £. Bosworth. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1971 XV The Significance of the Political Murder of Mirza Salman 181-191 Islamic Studies, Jouma/ of the Central Institute of Islamic Research, Karachi, I 11. Karachi. 1964 .XVI The Qizilbiish, Education and the Arts 168- 176 Turcica VI . Paris - Strasbourg, 1975 Index 1- 10 This volume contains xiv + 302 pages. .