The adventures of Shah Esma'il : a seventeenth-century Persian popular romance /

The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil recounts the dramatic formative years of the Safavid empire (1501-1722), as preserved in Iranian popular memory by coffeehouse storytellers and written down in manuscripts starting in the late seventeenth century. Beginning with the Safavids' saintly ancestors in...

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Other Authors: Wood, Barry, 1970- (Translator)

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Language: English
Persian

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World 08.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Call Number: DS292.3 .A4313 2018

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The Story of Solṭān Firuzshāh
  • 2 The Story of ʿEvazolkhavāṣṣ and His Son Moḥammad al-Ḥāfeẓ
  • 3 The Story of Salāḥoddin Rashid
  • 4 The Story of Seyyed Jebrāʾil
  • 5 The Story of Solṭān Khwājeh ʿAli
  • 6 The Battle between Solṭān ʿAli Mirzā and Aybeh Solṭān and the Death of Solṭān ʿAli
  • 7 Shāh Esmāʿil Catches Sight of His Majesty the Lord of the Age
  • 8 The Emergence of Shāh Esmāʿil from Gilān and Lāhijān with Seven People, and the Conquest of Ṭārom
  • 9 The Story of the Sons of Rostam Shāh, and of How His Majesty the Shadow of God Went to Ardabil; the Killing of ʿAli Khān Solṭān
  • 10 Alvand Sends ʿOthmān Solṭān to Fight the Shāh, Who in Turn Sends Qarāpari Qājār; the Latter is Killed, and the Torkmāns are Defeated
  • 11 King Alvand Goes to the Anatolian Emperor and Seeks Help; He Comes to Iran and is Defeated; His Qualities
  • 12 The World-conquering Shāh's Proposal to Tājlu Begom, the Daughter of ʿĀbedin Beg Shāmlu, and the Wedding Feast of that Fortunate Prince
  • 13 Birth of the Shadow of God, Shāh Ṭahmāsp, in the Village of Ranān near Eṣfahān
  • 14 Shāh Esmāʿil Sends an Army against Solṭān Morād, and that Failure is Captured
  • 15 Solṭān Morād Flees toward Shirāz; Moḥammad Karahi Captures Him and Sends Him to Shāh Esmāʿil, But He Flees Again
  • 16 Solṭān Morād Flees toward Shirāz as Elyās Beg Pursues Him
  • 17 Elyās Beg Goes to Dāmghān to Fight Ḥosayn Kiyā Cholāvi and is Killed by That Man's Duplicity
  • 18 Shāh Esmāʿil Proceeds from Qom towards Firuzkuh and Māzandarān to Defeat Ḥosayn Kiyā Cholāvi
  • 19 ʿAli Kiyā Goes to Take the Pass of Firuzkuh
  • 20 Shāh Esmāʿil Arrives at the Fortress of Mārānkuh and Does Battle with Ḥosayn Kiyā Cholāvi, Who is Killed
  • 21 Shoʿayb Āqā is Killed by Solṭān Aḥmad Sāruʾi; Moḥammad Karahi Rebels, Solṭān Aḥmad is Killed, and Yazd is Captured
  • 22 His Majesty Arrives at Yazd, and Moḥammad Karahi is Killed
  • 23 Shāh Esmāʿil Goes from Yazd to Ṭabas; Tardi Bābā is Killed, and Amir Kamāloddin Ḥosayn Comes to the Royal Court on Behalf of Solṭān Ḥosayn Bāyqarā
  • 24 ʿAbdi Beg is Martyred at the Hands of Ḥosayn Beg, Son of Ṣārem Khān the Kurd; Shāh Esmāʿil Arrives, and Ṣārem Khān Flees
  • 25 The Conquest of Baghdād by the Qezelbāsh; Bāyrak Solṭān Flees to Moṣul, and Shāh Esmāʿil Visits Najaf
  • 26 The Royal Banners Leave for ʿErāq and Khorrāmābād, Where Malekshāh Rostam is
  • 27 The Shāh and His Army Come to Fight Malekshāh Rostam, Who Pledges Obedience; Together They Go to Ḥovayzeh to Fight Malek Fayyāz
  • 28 His Majesty Sends Nur ʿAli Khalifeh to the Ṣufis of Rum on His Behalf, and He Accepts Oaths of Fealty in Tabriz and Diyārbakr
  • 29 The Royal Banners Head for Diyārbakr, and Shāh Esmāʿil Does Battle with ʿAlāʾoddawleh Dhulqadr
  • 30 Shāh Esmāʿil Sends a Letter to ʿAlāʾoddawleh, Who Responds with an Offer of Peace; His Majesty Returns to Ādharbāyjān
  • 31 Sāru Aṣlān and Sāru Qaplān Come to the Aid of Moḥammadi Solṭān and are Killed by Qarākhān the Brother of Moḥammad Khān Ostājlu, Who is Victorious
  • 32 On the Nature and Circumstances of Solṭān Salim, Son of Solṭān Bāyazid of Anatolia
  • 33 Qarākhān Attacks Arzenjān, and Moḥammad Khān Sends Solṭān Bāyazid of Anatolia an Envoy with Women's Clothing
  • 34 Solṭān Bāyazid and Solṭān Qānṣaw, the Ruler of Egypt, Fight against ʿAlāʾoddawleh Dhul.