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Studies in Safavid Mind, Society,
and Culture
James J. Reid
 Studies in Safavid
Mind, Society, and Culture examines Safavid-era society from the vantage points of
literary and artistic sources. The work
studies Safavid society from its pinnacle in the monarchy, to the military elite
households, merchants, tradesmen, rural populations, and the lower orders of society
including the underworld.
The book considers the waxing and waning of social communities over the generations, and
the metamorphoses of society through the tidal action of individual lives and existential
change. The few personal documents are
discussed, and the many biographical notices of individuals from the kings and military
notables to the peasant and the underworld criminal are placed into perspective. Some effort is made to look at the psychological
as well as the social aspects of Safavid cultural history all based upon contemporary
sources.
In order to study the mind, society, and culture of the Safavid era, an understanding of
literary approaches becomes necessary. Safavid
authors wrote in three basic forms, allegory [kinaya], irony [especially hajv, or
"satire"], and symbolic realism, often with all three intermingled. Studies in Safavid Mind, Society, and Culture
considers how Safavid writers employed these styles in writing their personal and
biographical documents. The complexity of
Safavid social terminology is also studied to arrive at a work attempting to balance
individual with group history.
Specifications:
2000: xxv+435pp., plates, appendix, bibl., index.
ISBN:
1-56859-089-X (cloth): $45.00
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