Ritual Music in the Safavid Era

During the Safavid Period, various arts flourished in Iranian society, and although the art of music was neglected at some point during this reign, it played a clear role in many different court and popular rituals of the Safavid Period. These rituals included some government ceremonies such as welcoming and sending off, coronation and taking off one's robe, the Shater festival, the conquest of cities, the birth of newborns, popular celebrations such as weddings and mourning, and religious rituals such as Ta'ziyya and mourning for the Imams among Shiites, and ritual music among other religions such as Christians. The author of this study aims to use library resources from that Period to examine the position of ritual music and its types in Iran during the Safavid Period in a descriptive-analytical manner and answer the question of what position, what application, and what types of music had in the various rituals of Iran during that Period, and how was it performed?