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4 - Safavid/Mughal Eras to the Islamic Republic

from Part II - The Successors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2021

Shivan Mahendrarajah
Shivan Mahendrarajah
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Summary

The Safavid/Shiʿi age dawned ominously in Khurasan, with Herat’s capitulation, the execution of Herat’s last Sunni shaykh al-Islam, and violence against Sunnis. Surprisingly, however, the shrine received Safavid support, from Shah Ismaʿil I and Shah ʿAbbas I. Nonetheless, endless Safavid-Uzbek wars and sectarian strife scarred Khurasan, leading members of the saint cult to find succor with kinsmen in Mughal India. During the succeeding centuries – late Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, Qajar, and Pahlawi rule – the shrine fell into disrepair and the cult withered. The founding of the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran (1979), paradoxically, signaled the rejuvenation of the saint cult and the revivification of the shrine complex.

Keywords

PahlawiHumayunHamidaAkbarsectarianQizilbashTaftazaniJamiQajarʿAbbas
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The Sufi Saint of Jam
History, Religion, and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi'i Iran
 , pp. 73 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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