From One Thousand and One Nights to Safavid Iran: A Persian Tawaddud

2017/01/30 by Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Historical and Linguistic Studies

paper · doi:10.1515/islam-2017-0007

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Abstract

Abstract: Shāh Ṭahmāsp Ṣafavī (r. 1524‒1576) patronized the translation of Arabic works into Persian in an effort to convert society to the Twelver Shīʿī outlook. According to modern Iranian literary history, one of the works that came to his attention for translation was

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