Michael Rubin reviews Ernest S. Tucker’s Nadir Shah’s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. In the early eighteenth century, Nadir Shah tore like a whirlwind across the Iranian plateau. The ...
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“They Compared to Napoleon” - Warlord Who Rose From Poverty to Save Iran
We follow the rise of Nader Shah from the dangerous borderlands of Khorasan, where raids, poverty, and politics forged a ...
Patterns--Iran in the Late Safavid Period -- Politics at the Safavid Court, I: shahs and grand viziers, 1629-1666 -- Safavid politics II: shahs, grand viziers, and eunuchs, 1666-1699 -- Monetary ...
"With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501-1722).
are essential in understanding how Britain came to be. But to truly comprehend England as a Protestant nation with a distinctive identity in relation to the continent the England of the Tudors and ...
A resonant history of influence and inspiration suggests it is now the turn of the Iranian people, and soon. [ comment ] Tahseen Bashir, the late Egyptian intellectual and erudite diplomat, once said ...
In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler ...
Iran’s oil wealth has been the source of numerous property disputes, often causing heartburn and ill-will among communities, ...
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