Travelogues and processes influencing how power was exercised during the Safavid period, from Shah Ismail to the coming to power of Shah Abbas (907-996 A.H)

The travelogue's view of the exercise of power in the first period of the Safavid rule encompassed all the religious-political-social and economic components involved in the type of politics and practices of the Safavid rule. Travel writers pay attention to the issue of exercising power in the first period of Safavid rule in a way that includes some of the most important models, methods and principles of politics and government in this period. The present article seeks to evaluate the travel writers' narrative of the exercise of power in the first period of the Safavid rule and tries to answer the question based on the data in travelogues and descriptive-analytical method that components affect the exercise of political power in Safavid Iran (The first period) from the point of view of travel writers, what were they and what was the impact of these components on this political structure? The hypothesis states that for the travel writers of religion and the institution of religion, economics and related developments, and the Shah himself and his supporters, as the most important components in the political structure of the Safavid era in the period under discussion in the exercise of power, these components were multifaceted. And how they influenced the exercise of power occupied the minds and tongues of travel writers