Inscribing Authority: Scribal and Archival Practices of a Safavid Decree (original) (raw)
In the documents group there exist sections dealing with the evaluation of the treasure trove of documents, exhibition, and oral history, which includes taking care of the collecting, the conservation, classification, preparation, evaluation, and indexing of manuscript and non-manuscript documents. This section also takes care of research activities leading to introduction of the documents, the writing of articles and books. The archives section of the oral history of this center collaborates with those persons who are knowledgeable as to the history of Khorasan, Mashhad and the Holy Shrine.
A Review of the Features of Safavid Documents
Journal of Politics and Law, 2016
During the rule of the Safavid dynasty (1502-1722 AD) the chancellery and royal documents played an important role in the administration of the state affairs. The royal documents constituted one of the main components of the chancelleries in management of the day-today affairs. The said documents are one of the main sources of research which include all royal communications, decrees, documents, political agreements, administrative and officials writings, economic, cultural and military reports, judicial, financial and legal documents as well as private and family communications. Hence a study of the royal documents would shed light on the mode of administration during the said era. The present paper is an attempt to review the main features of some of the documents circulated in the chancelleries and throughout the state during the Safavid era. The Safavid documents can be divided into various categories on the basis of their functionalities. The main thrust of the present paper is to discuss the nature of the diwanyat as well as their functions in the administration of the state where there was no constitution and the royal decrees and other forms of royal documents effectively played the role of the constitution and law. Attempts have been made to rely on the original documents, which are available in different archives, libraries and museums.
'Ilm al-Siyaq and Bureaucrats in Safavid Iran
Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History, 2023
As intellectual history emerges as a dominant paradigm across research in the humanities, and in order to draw new attention in the field of the study of I slam, this new series engages critically with issues of method, theory, and approach. Our vision is to continue to develop Islamic studies in this direction by presenting the most exciting recent studies in intellectual history across the fields of philosophy, history and historiography, mysticism, legal theory, theology, the study of the Qur' an and hadith, exegesis, and the study of religion, in short all aspects of the intellectual activity and production by Muslims and in Islamicate contexts. These studies will interrogate questions that cut across social, political, spiritual, and cultural phenomena with a focus on ideas as the critical dynamic of historical analysis. We seek to inform b roader debates on the study oflslam and religion, across cultural contexts and diachronically across periods and epochs. We particularly welcome studies that bring intellectual history into conversation with other fields in the spirit of multi-disciplinarity. The series includes multi-authored collections of studies united by theme, purpose, and method as well as learned individual monographs that examine an idea, a personality, or a tendency in a thick description.
TADHKIRAT AL-MULUK A MANUAL OF SAFAVID ADMINISTRATION
English Translation of the Tadhkirat al-Mulūk Commentary: (а) Single Offices (b) Salaries and Fees of the Central Administration (c) Salaries and Troops of Provincial Governors (d) Administrative Geography (e) Budget : Revenue and Expenditure Appendices: I Turks and Iranians in Persia II The Supporters of the Lords of Ardabil III Land-tenure in Persia IV Routine of Official Instances V The Language and Style of the T-M VI An Additional List of Literature Index Persian Text *1-*130
This article is the first in-depth study of an Ilkhanid private document from the Mausoleum of Shaykh Ṣafī in Ardabil (North-Western Iran). It contains the critical edition, translation and commentary of an original deed recording the sale of half a village near Miyāna, in the south of the Iranian province of Azarbayjan, in 666/1267. The document is remarkable for its length, its highly literary wording, some formal oddities and also the identity of the parties. It shows that the seller, Bint Toghrïl, daughter of the last Saljuq sultan of Iran, whose life is documented by chronicles, managed not only to survive the Mongol conquests but also somehow to retain her economic base for several decades. The identity of the buyer and the qadi who legalized the act illustrates the strong presence of powerful Shafiʿi families in Mongol Iran (here the Qazwīnīs and Mākī Qazwīnīs). We compare this deed of sale with other unpublished items of the Ardabil corpus as well as similar documents from better-known medieval archival funds from the Near East.
Safavid Persia : the history and politics of an Islamic society
1996
The historiography of Safavid prefaces the early years of Shah Ismail in the "Afzal al-tavarikh" and elsewhere the iconography of the "Shah-nama-yi Shahi" kinship ties between the Safavids and the Qizillbash Amirs in late 16th-century Iran - a case study of the political career of members of the Sharaf al-Din Ogli Tekelu family le "Dar al-Saltana" de Qazvin, deuxieme capitale des safavides sufis, dervishes and mullas - the controversy over spiritual and temporal dominion in 17th-century Iran Shii rituals and Power II - the consolidation of Safavid Shiism - folklore and popular religion Shah Abbas and pilgimage to Mashhad "barrier of heterodoxy"? - rethinking the ties between Iran and Persian during the Safavid period - sketch for an "Etat de Langue" similar farmans from the reign of Shah Safi the rise of the Julfa merchants in the late 16th century the Dutch and the Persian silk trade the character of the urbanization of Isfahan in t...
Rise of the Safavids: From Mystics to Shahs
This paper examines the early history of the Safavid Order, looking at the evolution of the Safavids from a family-based Sufi Order into an imperial dynasty that laid the foundation for the modern Iranian state.