The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran

Idea of Iran Vol. 11

Charles Melville, Charles Melville

• Editore: I.B. Tauris
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780755645978
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: History
• Categoria: Middle Eastern History

This volume explores the troubled eighteenth century in Iran, between the collapse of the Safavids and the establishment of the new Qajar dynasty in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Despite the striking military successes of Nader Shah, to defeat the Afghan invaders, drive back the Ottomans in the west, and launch campaigns into India and Central Asia, Iran steadily lost territory in the Caucasus and the east, where Persian arms failed to recover lands lost to the Afghans and the Ozbeks. The chapters of this book cover the continuity and change over this transitional period from a range of perspectives including political history, historiography, art and material culture. They illuminate the changes in Iran's internal conditions, including the legitimising legacy of the Safavid period in court chronicles, the rise of Nader Shah and his influence on the idea of Iran, as well as the art of successive dynasties competing for power and prestige. The volume also addresses Iran's changed international situation by examining relations with Russia, Britain and India, the result of which would contribute to its re-emergence with a curtailed presence in the new world order of European dominance.

Index:

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‘Abbas I, Safavid Shah here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, 86-here, 90-here, here, here, here, here, here, here

‘Abbas II, Safavid Shah…here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

‘Abbas III, Safavid Shah here, here

‘Abbas Mirza, Qajar prince here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

‘Abbasid here, here

‘Abbas-Qoli Khan here, here

‘Abd al-‘Azim, shrine here

‘Abd al-Beg here

‘Abd al-Razzaq, see Donboli

Abdali, Afghan tribe _….here, here, here, here, here, here, here

‘Abdollah Khan, court painter here, here, here, here, here, 115-here, here, here, here

‘Abdollah Khan, Ozbek … here, here, here, here

Abu Ahmad Abdal here

Abu’l-Hasan Khan, Ilchi… here, here, here, here, here, here

Abu’l-Hasan Mostowfi, see Ghaffari

Abu’l-Feyz Khan here, here

Abu Moslem Khorasani here

Afghanistan, Afghans……… here, here, here, here, here, here, 183-here, here, here, here, here

Afraseyab here, here, here

Afshar, Afsharid, tribe, dynasty 8,16, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar … here, ...