imperial culture in the ottoman and safavid empires
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Imperial Culture in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires. HIST 113: Islamic Civilization Prof. Gustafson. Hagia Sophia. Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture. Interior of the Dome atop Hagia Sohia. Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture. Hagia Sophia. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Imperial Culture in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
HIST 113: Islamic CivilizationProf. Gustafson
Hagia Sophia
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Interior of the Dome atop Hagia Sohia
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Hagia Sophia
Blue Mosque
Sulaymaniyya Complex
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Sehzadeh Complex, Istanbul
Bayezid Mosque (16th century)
Source: Lewis, Islam and the Arab World
Expansion of the Ottoman Empire
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Shah ‘Abbas Fighting the Uzbeks, fresco, 16th century
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Safavid Polities
• Qizilbash: “red heads;” Turkic tribal military supporters– described as ghulat “extremists”
• Tajiks: urban, Persian speaking literate classes– Support Persian high culture, pre-Islamic kingship
tradition
Maydan-i Shah, Isfahan
Scene from the Houghton Shahnama
Source: Welch, Persian Painting
Source: Grabar, Mostly Miniatures
Scene from the Houghton Shahnama
Source: Hattstein and Delius, Islam: Art and Architecture
Shah ʿAbbas and the Image of the Just Ruler
1. What ideas of legitimate kingship and justice are presented in the story of Shah ʿAbbas’ foot pilgrimage to the shrine of a Shi’i Imam in Mashhad? How do these ideas compare to what we read in other political texts, like the Siyasatnameh of Nizam al-Mulk, or al-Mawardi’s treatise on the caliphate?
2. How does our Safavid chronicler from the early 1600s describe Shah Ismaʿil when looking back on his legacy? In particular, how does he interpret the Ottoman victory over the Safavids at the Battle of Chaldiran (the last paragraph on page 71, continuing to page 72)? Why?