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"Converting Persia explains how Iran was to acquire one of its defining features: its Shi'ite character. Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE). Persia adopted Shi'ism as its official religion. Rula Abisaab explains how and why this specific brand of Shi'ism - urban and legally-based - was brought to the region by leading Arab 'Ulama from Ottoman Syria, and changed the face of the region till this day." "These emigre scholars furnished distinct sources of legitimacy for the Safavid monarchs, and an ideological defense against the Ottomans. Under their tutelage, religious thought was increasingly…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2013I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited · 264 pages · 9781780767789
- Other · English · 2004I.B. Tauris · 243 pages · 9781860649707
HistoryReligionShīʻahShiitesIran, religionIran, history