Safavid dynasty: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: Internet Archive - "The Safavid Period and the Safavid Administrative System". Sep 02, 2026
Add new Web site: Smarthistory – The Safavids, an introduction. Apr 02, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Women’s Sexuality: the Safavid Legacy (PDF). Sep 18, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Women’s Sexuality: the Safavid Legacy (PDF). Sep 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - The Safavid Dynasty. Dec 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Was Safavid Iran an Empire? Sep 30, 2024
Add new Web site: OpenStax - The Safavid Empire. Jun 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The Safavid Period and the Safavid Administrative System". Dec 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Asia Society - Education - Iran's Safavid Dynasty. Dec 04, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Mary Washington - College of Arts and Sciences - Rise of the Safavids: From Mystics to Shahs. Oct 10, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Safavid (1491-1722). Jul 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Safavid Empire. Feb 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Safavid Empire. Jan 20, 2023
Clarified the Safavids' transition from religious order to political power and revised the discussion of the military reforms of ʿAbbās I. May 15, 2020
Revised geographic and ethnic characterization of the Ṣafavid Dynasty. Jun 06, 2017
Changing starting date for the Safavid dynasty to 1501. Oct 19, 2016
Revised discussion of the rule of Ismāʿīl I. Apr 04, 2014
Added new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Art of the Safavids before 1600. Nov 28, 2008
Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - The Safavid Empire (1501-1722). Nov 28, 2008
Added new Web site: Washington State University - Shi'a: The Safavids. Nov 17, 2008
Added new Web site: Iran Chamber Society - Safavid Empire 1502 - 1736. Sep 29, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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