Shi‘ite Higher Learning and the Role of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī in Late Safavid Iran

This dissertation explores the ways in which religious knowledge was produced and transmitted in Safavid madrasas, particularly in Isfahan, during the later Safavid period—from the reign of Shāh Abbās II (1642–66) to the end of Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn’s reign (1694–1722). It argues that Safavid madrasas...

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Main Author: Moazzen, Maryam
Other Authors: Subtelny, Maria Eva
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29816