The Saffavids:

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1. Aubin, J. "Étude Safavides: Shah Isma'il et les notables de l'Iraq persan," JESHO 2(1959):37-81.
2. _____. "La Politique religieuse des Safavides," Le Shi'ism Imamite. Paris, (1970): 235-44.
3. Arjomand, S. "Religion, Political Action and Legitimate Domination in Shi'ite Iran: 14th-18th Centuries," European Journal of Sociology. 20(1979):59-109.
4. Frye, Richard N. "The Persian Conquest of Iran," The Heritage of Persia. Cleveland World Publishing, 1963.
5. Lambton, A. K. S. "Landlord and Peasant in Persia," London: 1953.
6. Mazaoui, Michael. The Origins of the Safavids: Shi'ism, Sufism, and the Ghulat. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1972.
7. Reid, James. Tribalism and Society in Islamic Iran, 1500-1629. Malibu California, 1973.
8. Savory, Roger. "Safavid Persia." Vol.1. Cambridge History of Islam, 394-429.
9. Lockhart, L. The Fall of the Safavi Dynasty and the Afghan Occupation of Persia. Cambridge 1958.