چکیده:
The Safavids, as the first independent and powerful Twelver Shiite government, faced two religious and sectarian currents: Sunnis and followers of non-Islamic religions. Historical sources provide different and sometimes contradictory reports regarding how the Safavids interacted with them. This research aims to examine the Safavid interaction and approach toward Christians, as the most important religious minority of that era, as well as the factors affecting this interaction and its consequences, during the stages of formation, establishment, and their period of authority. This study has been conducted by analyzing historical sources of the aforementioned period, travelogues of Western travelers and foreign ambassadors present in Iran, as well as the results of studies by contemporary Orientalists and Safavid scholars.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This examination has been conducted through the analysis of historical sources of the aforementioned period, travelogues of Western travelers and foreign ambassadors present in Iran, and also the results of studies by contemporary Orientalists and Safavid scholars.
The first category of sources includes reliable histories of this period, such as: Tarikh Alam-ara-yi Abbasi, Tarikh Jahangushay-i Khaghan, Habib al-Siyar, Khulasat al-Tawarikh, Ahsan al-Tawarikh, and Tazkirat al-Shah Tahmasp, along with travelogues written by ambassadors and Europeans present in Iran, such as the travelogues of Chardin, Della Valle, Tavernier, Don Garcia, Sanson, and the Shirley brothers.
It seems that the massacre of Georgians in the aforementioned wars cannot be considered evidence of the Shah's hatred or hostility toward Armenians and the Christian minority; because Shah Ismail's policy in suppressing rebellions and disobedience was such, and the Shah in the conquests of Islamic lands also used this type Hasan Beg Rumlu, the historian and author, has addressed the valuable history Ahsan al-Tawarikh, explaining the events of the Timurid era until the end of Shah Ismail II.
Regarding Shah Abbas's goal for this action, two major reasons have been mentioned; one, utilizing the economic capacity of the Armenians in foreign trade, especially silk exports and domestic silkworm rearing; and the other, the attraction that the Armenian-populated lands, with their abundant wealth as well as beautiful and handsome people, had for its neighbors, which by attacking them, they would protect themselves Masiha, An Analytical Study of the Interaction of the Safavid State with Religious Minorities, p.
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