Safavid Persia : the history and politics of an Islamic society / edited by Charles Melville.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951-

University of Cambridge. Centre of Middle Eastern Studies.

Conference Name:

International Round Table on Safavid Persia (2nd : 1993 : Pembroke College, Cambridge)

Series:

Pembroke Persian papers ; v. 4.

Pembroke Persian papers ; v. 4

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736--Congresses.

Iran.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 425 pages : illustrations, maps (some folded) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Language Note:

Chiefly in English with some text in French.

Summary:

The Safavids ruled Persia for nearly two and a half centuries, longer than any other dynasty since the pre-Islamic period. this book on Safavid Persia is divided into two sections, the first of which includes studies on the historiography and the religious politics of the period. Among the contributions to the second section are chapters on the silk industry, which brought European merchants into the country and at the same time exposed the Persian economy to the vagaries of world trade on the capital city of Esfahan, beautified by successive Shahs and on the Safvids' reluctance to adopt firearms and artillery, which was one of the factors in the collapse of the dynasty when the Afghans invaded Persia in 1722.

Notes:

"Published in association with the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge."

"All but one of the fifteen papers ... were first presented at the Second International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held in Pembroke College, Cambridge, under the auspices of the University's Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, in September 1993"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1860640230

1860640869

OCLC:

35394489