Medieval Persia 1040-1797 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, David, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the second edition
  • 1. The land and peoples of Persia
  • 2. Persia in the early Islamic centuries
  • 3. Turkish rule in Persia: the great Saljūq Sultanate at its height (431-485/1040-1092)
  • 4. Institutions of Saljūq government: steppe and sedentary traditions
  • 5. The later Saljūq period and its aftermath: Ismāʻīlīs, Qara-Khitais and Khwārazm-shāhs (485-617/1092-1220)
  • 6. The Mongols and their coming to Persia
  • 7. The early Mongol rulers: Persia under Infidel government (663-694/1265-1295)
  • 8. The Barbarians civilized? Ghazan and his successors (694-736/1295-1335)
  • 9. The Empire of Tamerlane
  • 10. Persia in the fifteenth century: the Timurids
  • 11. Persia in the fifteenth century: the Tiirkmen Dynasties and the rise of the Ṣafawids
  • 12. Shāh Ismāʻl̄l I and the establishment of Shīʻism
  • 13. Crisis, recovery and crisis (930-995/1524-1587)
  • 14. The apogee of the Ṣafawid Empire: the reign of Shāh ʻAbbās i (995-1038/1587-1629)
  • 15. The second century of Ṣafawid rule
  • 16. Persia in the eighteenth century
  • Epilogue.