Safavid Isfahan: 'half the world'
The Safavids made Twelver Shi'ism Iran's state religion and under Abbas I rebuilt Isfahan around the Naqsh-e Jahan plaza — bazaars, mosques and gardens on a monumental scale.
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Safavid Isfahan: 'half the world'
The Safavids made Twelver Shi'ism Iran's state religion and under Abbas I rebuilt Isfahan around the Naqsh-e Jahan plaza — bazaars, mosques and gardens on a monumental scale.
Iran's Constitutional Revolution
Merchants, clergy and intellectuals forced Qajar rulers to accept a parliament and constitution — the Middle East's first sustained constitutionalist movement, fought partly over foreign concessions.