Books in the British Institute of Persian Studies series

The Safavid period represents an immensely rich chapter in the history of Iranian architecture. This work focuses on the shrine of Shaykh Safi, built in AD 1334, as an important template for an emergent Safavid taste.

The Safavid dynasty originated as a fledgling apocalyptic mystical movement based in Iranian Azarbaijan and grew into a large, cosmopolitan Irano-Islamic empire stretching from Baghdad to Herat. This title examines how the state introduced and moulded a political discourse that reflected the social and religious heterogeneity of 16th-century Iran.

"The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. This title offers an English translation of the original Persian text.