From One Thousand and One Nights to Safavid Iran: A Persian Tawaddud

Shāh Ṭahmāsp Ṣafavī (r. 1524‒1576) patronized the translation of Arabic works into Persian in an effort to convert society to the Twelver Shīʿī outlook. According to modern Iranian literary history, one of the works that came to his attention for translation was Risālah-i Ḥusnīyah (Ḥusnīyah’s Treati...

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Main Author: Stanfield-Johnson, Rosemary (Author)
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Published: De Gruyter 2017
In: Der Islam
Year: 2017, Volume: 94, Issue: 1, Pages: 158-191
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