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Sīrāf (Extinct city)

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"The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in North-West Iran, and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Perso-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Heart. During this golden era in Iran's history, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, functionaries of the Safavid 'state' introduced and moulded a unique and vibrant political discourse which reflected the social and religious heterogeneity of the sixteenth-century Iranian landscape. Beginning with the millenarian-minded Shah Isma'il and concluding with the autocrat par excellence, Shah Abbas, Colin P. Mitchell elucidates the phenomenon of state-sponsored rhetoric, and helps us understand how this dynasty articulated their political and religious sovereignty during a crucial phase of Iranian history."--Jacket.

Iran --- History --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran). --- Politische Rede. --- Schiiten. --- Safawiden, --- Safawiden. --- 1501-1736. --- Iran.

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Monuments --- Historic buildings --- International Merv Project. --- Merv (Extinct city) --- Antiquities.

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Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime trade that supplied Western Asia with the products of India, the Far East and Eastern Africa between A.D. 800 and 1050. This volume synthesises the written evidence of the history of Siraf, and outlines what we know about the character of the city, the ways in which its inhabitants exploited the hinterland and its role in the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean. This volume introduces the excavations carried out at the site and the range of finds that were recovered (Chapter 1), the written evidence that relates to Siraf (Chapter 2), the cities' urban topography (Chapter 3), its hinterland (Chapter 4), the nature of settlement in the neighbouring high valleys (Chapter 5) and Siraf's place in the wider historical and geographical contexts (Chapter 6). The volume also includes digital versions of the original maps of the site produced in the 1970s. This is the first volume in a new series that has been established by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) in conjunction with Oxbow Books, which will publish archaeological research in Iran that has been sponsored by BIPS.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Sīrāf (Extinct city) --- Iran --- Sīrāf (City) --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities

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"This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines - including archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history - to examine Iran's political and commercial relations with the Indian Ocean world in history, Persian-speaking communities in the Indian Ocean world, Persian(ate) elements in Indian Ocean languages and literatures, Persian texts dealing with the Indian Ocean, and connections in material culture"--

Iran --- Indian Ocean Region --- Indian Ocean Region --- Relations --- Relations --- Civilization --- Iranian influences