Ghazā and Ghazā Terminology in Chronicles from the Sixteenth-Century Safavid Courtly Sphere.

In the later decades of the fifteenth century, adherents of the Safavid order started raiding the regions of the northern Caucasus and eastern Anatolia. As most of these raids involved Christian principalities, they have earned the Safavid shaikhs Joneyd and Haydar the reputation as ghāzis, as fight...

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Published in:Journal of Persianate Studies Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 240 - 269
Main Author: Trausch, Tilmann
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2017
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