Episode 8.8 - Abbas the Great
/Abbas the Great, the shah of the Safavid empire, was great military leader, reformer, and diplomat. He took a shrinking, disintegrating Persian empire and enabled it to grow its greatest extent, in no small part because of his own personal military campaigns
Sources
Eskander Beg Monshi, History of Shah Abbas the Great, translation by Roger M. Savory
Cambridge History of Iran, “Ch 4 The Turkmen Dynasties”
Cambridge History of Iran, “Ch 5, The Safavid Period”
Cambridge History of Islam, “Ch 5, Safavid Persia”
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