Safavid Iran and Her Neighbors

Book excerpt: "The Safavid phenomenon : an introductory essay / Michel Mazzaoui -- Naqshbandis and Safavids : a contribution to the religious history of Iran and her neighbors / Hamid Algar -- The imagined embrace : gender, identity, and Iranian ethnicity in Jahangiri paintings / Juan R.I. Cole -- A Safavid poet in the heart of darkness : the Indian poems of Ashraf Mazandarani / Stephen Frederic Dale -- Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, family values, and the Safavids / Shireen Mahdavi -- Anti-Ottoman concerns and Caucasian interests : diplomatic relations between Iran and Russia, 1587-1639 / Rudi Matthee -- The Central Asian hajj-pilgrimage in the time of the early modern empires / R.D. McChesney -- A seventeenth-century Iranian Rabbi's polemical remarks on Jews, Christians, and Muslims / Vera B. Moreen -- The genesis of the Akhbārī revival / Devin Stewart"-- OhioLink Library Catalog.