Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire

by Rula Jurdi Abisaab

Book Overview

'Converting Persia' explains how Iran was to acquire one of its defining characteristics: its Shi'ism. 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 changed the face of the region till this day. These emigre scholars furnished distinct sources of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186064970X
• ISBN13: 9781860649707
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"