Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian LegendA ruthless autocrat who blinded and killed his own sons, but was revered as a hero by his own people. A brilliant warrior who restored his nation’s pride and territorial integrity by waging war on the foreign occupying forces, but chose an English knight to be his ambassador in the West. An aesthete whose artistic patronage made his country a centre of art and culture, whose religious devotion combined with realpolitik, helped convert Shi’i Islam into a geoploitcal phenomenon. Arguably Iran’s greatest ruler since the Arab invasion in the 7th century AD, Shah Abbas was an immensely complex and much misunderstood character who, despite often contradictory behaviour, changed the face of the Middle East forever. |
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Indhold
The Birth of a Shii State | 1 |
2 A Turbolent Childhood and the Seizure of Power | 15 |
3 Abbas Takes Control | 31 |
4 The Recovery of Khurasan from the Uzbeks | 47 |
5 English Adventures at the Service of Shah Abbas | 53 |
Khurasan the Persian Gulf and a Challenge to the Ottomans | 65 |
7 Abbas Expels the Ottomans | 75 |
8 The Search for European Allies | 85 |
13 The English Embassy and the Death of Abbas | 143 |
14 Abbas the Man and the King | 155 |
15 The Court of Shah Abbas | 165 |
16 The Throne and Mosque Alliance | 181 |
17 The City that was Half the World | 193 |
18 The Merchant King | 209 |
19 Shah Abbas and the Arts | 217 |
20 The Later Safavids | 227 |
9 Pressure on the Gulf Mass Deportations and the Murder of a Son | 99 |
the Capture of Hormuz | 113 |
the Capture of Qandahar and Baghdad | 131 |
12 A Conflict of Envoys | 137 |
Conclusion | 239 |
Notes | 243 |
| 259 | |
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Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend |
| Forfatter | David Blow |
| Udgiver | I.B.Tauris, 2014 |
| ISBN | 085771676X, 9780857716767 |
| Længde | 288 sider |
| Eksporter citat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |