| ID | 151450 |
| Title Proper | Battle of Chālderān |
| Other Title Information | official history and popular memory |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wood, Barry |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines some manuscripts of the so-called “Anonymous Histories of Shah Esmāʿil” with a view to answering the question: How did people in post-1514 Iran remember the Battle of Chālderān? After a brief examination of these manuscripts, the article focuses on three moments of the battle—the Safavid council of war, Esmāʿil’s clash with Malquch-oghli, and the Ottoman cannonade—to explore the ways in which popular memory embellished and altered the events we know from the official histories. Such changes reveal that the loss at Chālderān may have marked the end of Shah Esmāʿil’s aura of invincibility, but not of his larger-than-life image in the minds of his countrymen. |
| `In' analytical Note | Iranian Studies Vol. 50, No.1; Jan 2017: p.79-105 |
| Journal Source | Iranian Studies Vol: 50 No 1 |
| Key Words | Historiography ; Safavids ; Shah Esmāʿil I ; Chālderān ; Popular Literature |