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A writer explains the role of a fascinating animal in making communities, economies, identities, sport, and in challenging gender stereotypes
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A writer explains the role of a fascinating animal in making communities, economies, identities, sport, and in challenging gender stereotypes
Yashaswini Chandra’s
The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback is a charming book, both in its broad strokes as well as details. From the start Chandra’s passion for the horse as a “sentient being” is clear, but it is not a romanticised affair. And though it is perhaps difficult to separate horses from tales of kings and aristocrats not least because a good deal of visual material featuring them is courtly in origin there is a conscious effort to move beyond elite quarters and recognise the role of the horse in making communities, economies, identities, sport, and even in challenging gender stereotypes. This last extends
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Safavid Empire (1501-1722)- Originated as a nomadic tribe, began to migrate into the Middle East- Sufi Islamic group
-Shia: Leader should be a member/descendant of Muhammad s family. (In Sunni islam the people/nobles choose a leader.) Shiism also kept a lot of Bedouin traditions that other sects didn t.
-Safi al-Din, 13th century- forefather of the Safavids
-Ismail, founder of the empire- Tribal leader, raised as Shiite Muslim used religion to consolidate beliefs, started as Sufi
1501: Ismail captures Tabriz, which becomes capital, starting point of the empire
-Warriors: Red Hats (Qizilbash) Religious fighters who want to spread Shia Islam