The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

How an Afghan tribal leader took on two of the most powerful empires in the world and won independence for Afghanistan. The pivotal legacy of the Battle of Chaldiran still reverberates 500 years ...

Iran Under the Safavids aims at providing the student and general reader, in non-technical language, with a comprehensive history of the Safavid dynasty. Professor Savory considers the origins of the ...