The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance by Barry Wood
The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance

Barry Wood

The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance

Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate Wo

Barry Wood

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The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil recounts the dramatic formative years of the Safavid empire (1501-1722), as preserved in Iranian popular memory by coffeehouse storytellers and written down in manuscripts starting in the late seventeenth century. Be...

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