عنوان

Slaves of the Shah: new elites of Safavid Iran

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

Slaves of the Shah: new elites of Safavid Iran

خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه

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.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London; New York

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

I.B. Tauris

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2004

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 218 p., ]16[ p. of plates : ill. )some col.(, maps )some col.( ; 25 cm.

متن يادداشت

"Our panel was entitled "New Elites of Isfahan: Patronage, Aesthetics and Power in Safavid Iran", Second Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies )SIS/AIIS(, Washington DC, May 1998".--p.149

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

ISBN-10: 1860647219

متن يادداشت

ISBN-13: 9781860647215

متن يادداشت

Sussan Babaie ... ]et al.[

متن يادداشت

1

عنصر شناسه ای

، Iran -- History - Safavid dynasty, 1051-6371

شماره رده

کد نقش

TI

عنصر شناسه اي

AU Babaie, Sussan

عنصر شناسه اي

CO Conference on Iranian Studies )2nd : 8991 : Bethesda, Md.(