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The Apocalypse of Ecstasy: The Poetry of Shah Ismāᶜīl Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Amelia Gallagher
Amelia Gallagher*
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Niagara University, New York
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This article explores the poetry of Shah Ismāᶜīl Safavī (d. 1524), the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. Established as an important historical source by Vladimir Minorsky during World War II, the issues surrounding the poetic corpus of Shah Ismāᶜīl have continued to attract the attention of historians of the Safavids. With examples from the earliest and most authentic manuscript, the idea of viewing this body of works as literary sources versus political propaganda is discussed in this article.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 361 - 397
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Copyright © 2018 Association For Iranian Studies, Inc

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