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The Safavid Canon: How Shah Abbas Standardized Persian Shiism
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Shah Abbas I's controversial religious reforms that transformed Twelver Shiism from a diffuse set of local traditions into a centralized state doctrine. They discuss the appointment of a state-sanctioned clergy under Mullah Bashi, the persecution of Sufi orders and Sunni Muslims, the forced conversion of Iranian villages, and the suppression of the Nuqtavi movement in 1593. The conversation also covers the role of the Qizilbash in enforcing orthodoxy, the construction of the Masjid-e-Shah in Isfahan as a symbol of imperial faith, and the long-term…
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