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	Tahmasp II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tahmasp was the son of Husayn (Safavid), the shah of Iran at that time.
		When Husayn was forced to abdicate by the Afghans in 1722, Prince Tahmasp wished to claim the throne.
		Tahmasp also eventually gained the recognition of both the Ottoman Empire and Russia, each worried about the other gaining too muchinfluence in Iran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tahmasp_II (167 words)

	Decline of the Safavids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shah Tahmasp II, the son of Shah Hussain ascended in 1134/1722 at Qazwin.
		Shah Tahmasp II was the ruler of Qazwin and Mazandaran.
		In 1144/1732, just over two and a half years after Shah Tahmasp II had mounted the throne as a result of the restoration of the Safavid monarchy, he was forced by Nadir to abdicate in favour of his infant son Abbas III.
	ismaili.net /histoire/history07/history748.html (480 words)

	Tahmasp I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tahmasp I (1514-1576) was an influential Shah of Persia of the Safavid Dynasty.
		Tahmasp came to power at the age of 10, when he succeeded to the throne of Persia in 1524 after the death of Shah Isma'il I.
		During his childhood he was weak and unable to exert control over his empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tahmasp_I (242 words)

	Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501-1576
		Born in 1514, Tahmasp was sent to serve as governor of Herat in 1516.
		During the course of Tahmasp’s fifty-one year reign, the Safavids, sandwiched between the Ottomans to the West and the Uzbeks and Mughals in the East, were constantly challenged to keep their domain intact.
		Tahmasp’s immediate successors were less important both as rulers and as patrons of the arts but there was a revival under Shah Abbas (1587–1629) when the state had increased power and the arts, commerce and religion flourished.
	www.asiasociety.org /arts/huntparadise (755 words)

	Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much booty was taken, especially from Georgian churches, and Tahmasp claimed as his rightful share the wives, daughters, and sons of the nobility, instead of the usual one-fifth of the treasure (Eskandar Beg, I, pp.
		Shah Tahmasp used the opportunity to tighten Persian predominance in eastern Georgia by imposing Persian social and political institutions and by placing converts to Islam on the thrones of Kartli and Kakheti.
		Tahmasp's campaign in 961/1554 is said to have brought thirty thousand people from the Caucasus to Persia (Shah Tahmasp, p.
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	Tahmasp: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...centralizing power in the Safavid throne, Shah Tahmasp managed to maintain a balance of power...1576 1577, who had been imprisoned by Tahmasp for twenty years on suspicion of treason...scorched-earth policy, originally introduced by Tahmasp, to impede the Ottoman advance and to...
		TAHMASP ta masp, 1514 76, shah of Persia (1524 76), son and successor of Ismail and the second of the Safavid dynasty.
		He then entered the service of Tahmasp, the son of Shah Sultan Husayn, who was asserting...had usurped the Persian throne.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/tahmasp.jsp?l=T&p=1 (857 words)

	NURUDDIN ALI (922-957/1516-1550)
		Shah Ismail, the founder of the Safavids in Iran died in 930/1524, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Tahmasp, who was ten years and three months old.
		Shah Tahmasp, struggling against discord and disloyalty and treachery in high places, both on the part of Kizilbash chiefs and on the part of his own brothers, managed to hold the Safavid state together for more then half a century.
		Shah Tahmasp spread his influence in India, and tied his relation with Burhan Nizam Shah and Shah Tahir Hussain of Ahmadnagar.
	ismaili.net /histoire/history07/history731.html (855 words)

	Tahmasp I -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Tahmasp, the eldest son of Shah Isma'il I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, was for a long period after coming to the throne a pawn of powerful tribal leaders.
		Isma'il's successor, Tahmasp I (reigned 1524–76), encouraged carpet weaving on the scale of a state industry.
		This development began in the reign of Tahmasp (1524–76) and culminated in the reign of the greatest Safavid shah, 'Abbas I (ruled 1588–1629).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9070927 (760 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nadir Shah, Iran History (Iranian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He then entered the service of Tahmasp, the son of Shah Sultan Husayn, who was asserting his claims against the Afghans under Mahmud, who had usurped the Persian throne.
		Nadir took the name Tahmasp Kuli Khan [Tahmasp's slave] and proceeded to win a series of battles against the Afghans.
		Tahmasp's infant son Abbas III was placed on the throne with Nadir as regent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NadirSha.html (475 words)

	1520-1530 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Court of Faridun, Folio 38v of Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh, Attributed to Qadimi, Iran, Tabriz c.
		Yurt, intricate red and gold design on vent cover, roof and walls, inside of vent cover in blue, red vent, around the vent is an orange band, the valance consists of a dark blue band and large orange scalloping, the rectangular door is outlined in green.
		Salam and Tur recieve the reply of Faridun, Folio 53v of Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh, Attributed to Abdul-Aziz, Iran, Tabriz c.
	www.geocities.com /historyoftents/16thcentury/1520-1530.html (234 words)

	Wealth Of Kings: Masterpiece Persian Carpets
		The three great Shahs, Ismå`ìl, Tahmasp and Abbas, grew up in a world of backstabbing and treachery, dominated by war and the fifth columnist activities of their insurgent Qizilbåsh followers.
		Tahmasp was betrayed by both his brother and two of his sons, a fact which may account for the large contingent of Circassian women in his Harem.
		Yet we remember Ismåìl for his great personal courage, Tahmasp for his political skills, and Abbas as the builder of Isfahan and for having opened up Persia to the western world.
	www.weavingartmuseum.org /plate31-32.html (520 words)

	History of Iran: Safavid Empire 1502 - 1736
		Shah Esma'il's descendants Shah Tahmasp I (1524-1576), Shah Esma'il II (1576-1577) and Shah Mohammad (1577-1587), ruling in succession, recovered some of the original Safavid confidence and expanded in the opposite direction of the Ottomans, as far as Transoxiana.
		Shah Tahmasp I the eldest son of Shah Esma'il ascended the throne at the age of ten, and for the first ten years of his reign, real power was held by a number of leaders of competing Qezelbash factions, which caused much political instability.
		This masterpiece is known as "Shahnameh of Tahmaspi" and was presented by the Safavid ruler to the Ottoman sultan Selim II in 1568.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/safavids/safavids.php (4245 words)

	History of Iran II
		Tahmasp, who was now calling himself Tahmasp II, with the aid of two of his commanders Nader Khan Afshar and Fathali Khan Qajar, attcked Ashraf's forces.
		Although he defeated his opponents, Tahmasp II was not much better ruler than his father or his grandfather.
		Shah Tahmasp II, weak and careless like his father and grandfather, was happy with the peace in his court and did not care about who really controls his divided and anarchic country.
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	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In 1726, as head of this group of bandits, he led 5,000 followers in support of the Safavid shah Tahmasp II, who was seeking to regain the throne his father had lost four years earlier to the Ghilzay Afghan usurper Mahmud.
		Meanwhile, Tahmasp had rashly attacked the Turks while Nadr was absent quelling a revolt in Khorasan, but the shah was heavily defeated and was forced to conclude peace with the Turks on ignominious terms.
		In 1736 Nadr deposed the youthful 'Abbas III (as Tahmasp II's son was styled) and ascended the Iranian throne himself, taking the title of Nadir Shah.
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	InfoHub Forums - The Safavi Dynasty of Iran
		When Shah Tahmasp agreed to a conciliatory peace, Nadir had him deposed.
		Tahmasp's infant son Abbas III was made king; Nadir ruled as regent.
		Nadir Shah had Tahmasp and his sons put to death in 1740.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2448 (909 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Iran 1501-76, was to have concentrated on the reigns of two shahs, Isma'il, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, and his son Tahmasp, whose patronage fostered an artistic flowering of great refinement.
		From the famous 16th-century Shahnama or Book of Kings created for Shah Tahmasp, it was painted by the Safavid master, Sultan Muhamad, whose work was so exquisite that it caused fellow artists "to hang their...
		In Iran under Shah Tahmasp, there was a successful integration of the highly refined style...
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	gooya news :: culture : نمايشگاه پاسداشت هنر ايران، نيويورک (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Shah Tahmasp himself gradually became more interested in spiritual matters and moved away from art, the Safavid style was patronized by other members of the royal family and the court.
		It was also disseminated to commercial artists through the artistic centers of the empire, as the Safavid capital was moved from Tabriz to Qazvin, located on the east-west trade route leading from India in the east and Anatolia in the west.
		The exhibition draws its title from notions of paradise and its image as a garden, the journey of the faithful to a heavenly world and the effort by the Safavid court to evoke a secular parallel equivalent through the depiction of the garden.
	azad.gooya.name /culture/archives/000136.php (2134 words)

	Asia Food Features
		He did not have his father's tenacity, nor his acumen in battle, and it was not long before he lost the kingdom, temporarily, to the Afghan chieftain Sher Shah (Sher Khan).
		Humayun was forced to flee with his Persian wife Hamida and sought refuge at the court of Tahmasp, the Shah of Persia, in 1544.
		Shah Tahmasp agreed to back Humayun in his attempt to recapture his kingdom in India, and announced his intention to provide Humayun with 12,000 of his best horsemen.
	www.asiafood.org /moghul_his_3.cfm (607 words)

	E:\ARDABIL\TEXT\page23.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The phrase used, however, suggests that Maqsud was not a craftsman.19 He is more likely to have been a donor, or perhaps a high official of Tahmasp's court or govern-ment, or of the shrine.
		That the carpets were at Ardabil, occupying at least one of these spaces, is confirmed by two 19th century eyewitnesses and by the 18th century inventories of the shrine.
		Moreover there is persuasive evidence that the two carpets, dated 1539/40, were originally made to measure for Shah Tahmasp's imporlant new building at the shrine, which was nearing completion at that date.
	www.slackers.net /~agold/ardabil/ardabil/text/page23.htm (830 words)

	Meshed also spelled MASHHAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tahmasp II, who was seeking to regain the throne his father had
		Tahmasp had rashly attacked the Turks while Nadr was absent quelling a revolt in
		Tahmasp, placed the latter's infant son on the throne, and declared himself regent.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/metropolis/mashhad/nadirshah (682 words)

	Safavids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constant wars with the Ottomans made Shah Tahmasp I move the capital from Tabriz, which was chronically being captured by the Ottoman troops, into the interior city of Qazvin in 1548.
		Increased contact with distant cultures in the 17th century, especially Europe, provided a boost of inspiration to Iranian artists who adopted modeling, foreshortening, spatial recession, and the medium of oil painting (Shah Abbas II sent Zaman to study in Rome).
		He had effective control under Shah Tahmasp II and then ruled as regent of the infant Abbas III until 1736 when he had himself crowned shah.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Safavids.htm (2407 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Shahs of Persia
		One of the things that Tahmasp was told to do what to strenghten the fortresses along the western border.
		Tahmasp also promoted tax collectors and directed all income to research of better and new weapons.
		Tahmasp led the Persians to yet two another succesfull wars against the Turks.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=63162 (3261 words)

	Tehran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sack of Ray in AD 1220, and annihilation of its total population, allowed Tehran to come to the fore.
		Tahmasp used Tehran as a resort where he could rest and hunt.
		In addition to the Tehran bazaar, which he built for his own pleasure, he also built four gates (Shah Abdul Azim, Dulab, Shamiran, and Qazvin), a three-mile-long wall, and 114 (cf., the number of suras in the Qur'an) towers for security.
	www.iles.umn.edu /faculty/bashiri/Courses/Tehran.html (1061 words)

	Nader Shah - MASHHAD: IRAN's Holiest City - Capital of Nader Shah, Founder of Afshar Dynasty
		Nader Qoli Beg was born in Kobhan, Iran, on Oct. 22, 1688, into one of the Turkish tribes loyal to the Safavid shahs of Iran.
		Shah Tahmasp II's victories were achieved by his general Nadir Qouli (1736-1747), and when he attempted to lead an army himself against the Turks he lost large tracts of land to them within a month.
		Nader returned to Isfahan, took Tahmasp prisoner and exiled him to Khorasan, placing Tahmasp's eight month old son on the throne, investing him with the title of Abbas III (1729-1736), and assumed the regency.
	www.farsinet.com /mashhad/nader_shah.html (820 words)

	WHAT THE ROSE DID TO THE CYPRESS from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
		Prince Tahmasp listened to this tale, and then the arrow of love for that unseen girl struck his heart also.
		These drums were put there so that the suitors of the princess might announce their arrival by beating on them, after which some one would come and take them to the king's presence.
		He dismounted, and moved towards them; but his companions hurried after and begged him first to let them go and announce him to the king, and said that then, when they had put their possessions in a place of security, they would enter into the all important matter of the princess.
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	Iransaga - Persian Art, The Safavids
		Shah Ismail's successor Shah Tahmasp, himself a painter, expanded the royal atelier.
		However, during the latter part of the 16th century, Shah Tahmasp became a religious extremist, lost interest in painting and stopped his patronage.
		This was the beginning of the end for the luxury book.
	www.art-arena.com /safavidart.htm (856 words)

	Afgha.com - Afgha Culture Days - Kamaluddin Behzad - Miniature Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While it is confirmed that Behzad worked there for Shah Tahmasp, son of Ismail, the aforementioned founder of the Safavid dynasty, it is uncertain if he already worked for Ismail himself.
		In contrast Behzad's link with the reign of Tahmasp is well documented, many Safavid authors, like Dust Muhammad, Qazi Ahmad and Iskandar Munshi, call Behzad one of Tahmasp's painters.
		There is also a painting in an album compiled for Tahmasp which shows a thin man with a grey beard, with a slightly stooped posture, wearing the typical Safavid turban, holding a book in one hand and a paint box in the other - the picture is labeled as the portrait of Behzad.
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