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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English
Persian
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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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
- 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.