Mahmoudi, Vahid

[ 1 ] - A Critical Review of the European Travelogues Reports on the Sufis of the Safavid Era

The European travelers' reports on the Sufi-era Sufism contain exquisite and valuable details as they are written out of the requirements of official historiography. Designed in a descriptive-analytical way, this article attempts to evaluate the reports of the travelers as compared to the works of dissidents, sympathizers, and Sufi scholars. The result showed that the travelers, due to their li...