The Politics Of Trade In Safavid Iran
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The Politics Of Trade In Safavid Iran
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Author : Rudolph P. Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-12-09
The Politics Of Trade In Safavid Iran written by Rudolph P. Matthee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.
Politics And Trade In Late Safavid Iran
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Author : Rudolph P. Matthee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Politics And Trade In Late Safavid Iran written by Rudolph P. Matthee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Iran categories.
Persia In Crisis
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Author : Rudi Matthee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Persia In Crisis written by Rudi Matthee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with History categories.
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. "Persia in Crisis" challenges this view. In this ground-breaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of turbulence in Iranian history. Inherently vulnerable because of the country's physical environment, its tribal makeup and a small economic base, the Safavid state was fatally weakened over the course of the seventeenth century. Matthee views Safavid Iran as a network of precarious alliances subject to perpetual negotiation and the society they ruled as an uneasy balance between conflicting forces. In the later seventeenth century this delicate balance shifted from cohesion to fragmentation. An increasingly detached, palace-bound shah; a weakening link between the capital and the outlying provinces; the regime's neglect of the military and its shortsighted monetary policies combined to exacerbate rather than redress existing problems, leaving the country with a ruler too feeble to hold factionalism and corruption in check and a military unable to defend its borders against outside attack by Ottomans and Afghans. The scene was set for the Crisis of 1722. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of Iranian history and the period that led to two hundred years of decline and eclipse for Iran.
The Safavid World
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Author : Rudi Matthee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Safavid World written by Rudi Matthee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Iran categories.
The Safavid World draws together scholars of Iranian history to explore every aspect of this fascinating dynasty and places the Safavids in a global context. The volume is divided into four parts, the first part adresses the question of the rise of the Safavids; their coming to power and their success in forging a religiously inspired polity that marked off Iran as the world¿s only Twelver-Shi`i state. Part two addresses social history, court life, military matters, religion and culture. Part three examines Safavid Iran¿s place in the world as viewed through its commercial and diplomatic ties with countries in Asia and Europe and lastly part four provides a glossary of names and terms.
Anti Ottoman Politics And Transit Rights
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Author : Rudolph P. Matthee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Anti Ottoman Politics And Transit Rights written by Rudolph P. Matthee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Iran categories.
The History Of The Late Revolutions In Persia
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Author : Judas Thaddeus Krusinski
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2018-05-30
The History Of The Late Revolutions In Persia written by Judas Thaddeus Krusinski and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with History categories.
The fall of the powerful Safavid Dynasty (1501-1722) to invading Afghan tribesmen in 1722 marked a crucial turning point in the country's history. Father Krusinski, Procurator-General of the Jesuit Mission and intermediary between the Papacy and the Safavid court, resided in Isfahan and was thus an eyewitness to the siege of the city. His account of the conditions and events preceding and during the siege and the subsequent demise of the Safavids is unique. It also offers key insights into the workings of the late Safavid state and government as well as the functions of the royal harem. This set includes the translation of the Clodius edition undertaken at the behest of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Damat Ibrahim. Together, these scarce volumes provide a unique source of information on late Safavid Persia. With an introduction by leading contemporary scholar, Rudi Matthee, the set will be welcomed by academics, collectors and libraries.
Safavid Persia
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Author : C. Melville
language : en
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Release Date : 1996-12-31
Safavid Persia written by C. Melville and has been published by I. B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-31 with History categories.
The Safavids ruled Persia for nearly two and a half centuries. This study is divided into two sections, the first of which includes studies on the historiography and the religious politics of the period. The second section covers such subjects as trade, an
Politics And Trade In Southern Iran And The Gulf 1745 1765
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Author : Thomas M. Ricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Politics And Trade In Southern Iran And The Gulf 1745 1765 written by Thomas M. Ricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Iran categories.
Slaves Of The Shah
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Author : Sussan Babaie
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2004-07-23
Slaves Of The Shah written by Sussan Babaie and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-23 with History categories.
The Savafid dynasty represented, in political, cultural and economic terms the pinnacle of Iran's power and influence in its early modern history. The evidence for this -the creation of a nation state, military expansion and success, economic dynamism and the exquisite art and architecture of the period - is well-known. What is less understood is the extent to which the Safavid success depended on - and was a product of - a class of elite originating from outside Iran: the slaves of Caucasian descent and the Armenian merchants of New Julfa in the city of Isfahan. It was these groups, bolstered by Shah Abbas the Great (1589 1629) and his successors, who became the pillars of Safavid political, economic and cultural life. This book describes how these elites, following their conversion to Islam, helped to form a new language of Savafid absolutism. It documents their contributions, financed by the Armenian trade in Safavid silk, to the transformation of Isfahan's urban, artistic and social landscape. The insights provided here into the multi-faceted roles of the Safavid royal household offer an original and comprehensive study of slave elites in imperial systems common to the political economies of the Malmuk, Ottoman and Safavid courts as well as contributing to the earlier Abbasid, Ghaznavid and Saljuq eras. As such this book makes an original and important contribution to our understanding of the history of the Islamic world from the 16th to the 18th centuries and will prove invaluable for students and scholars of the period.
Safavid Persia In The Age Of Empires
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Author : Charles Melville
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Safavid Persia In The Age Of Empires written by Charles Melville and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with History categories.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity. In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age. While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour. With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them.