The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

Shah Abbas I (1571-1629) is credited with building a network of caravanserais across Iran during the much later Safavid dynasty. Within the bazaar, it contains a caravanserai and a hammam.

The Safavid dynasty (defined by the Sackler as 1501-1722), which takes its name from the Safavid order of Sufism, saw a flowering of art, culture and architecture, particularly under its most ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Safavid era was one of the golden periods of Iran’s history in science, culture, art and architecture. Nowadays most of Safavid monuments are still operational. Especially in ...

Established as the capital of the Safavid Empire in the late 16th century, Isfahan was once part of the Silk Road — a network of trade routes that connected the East and West, she says.

The Safavid Dynasty In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Safavid Dynasty, the rulers of early modern Persia, who had a profound impact on the cultural and religious identity of Iran.

In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M ...

The exhibition 'Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran' has opened at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) ... DC, and shown as part of the Qatar-USA 2021 Year of Culture.

“We are especially proud to highlight for the public the rich artistic traditions of the Safavid empire, which ruled for over 200 years and under which Iran became a great cultural center. Painting, ...

Fashioning an Empire was first conceived by and presented at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, and shown as part of the Qatar-USA 2021 Year of Culture.