Rudi Matthee

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Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of IsfahanHardcover, 15 December 2011

Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
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Part of Series
International Library of Iranian Studies
Print Length
416 pages
Language
English
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company
Date Published
15 Dec 2011
ISBN-10
184511745X
ISBN-13
9781845117450

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Rudi Matthee
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
15 December 2011
Dimensions:
23.62 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm
ISBN-10:
184511745X
ISBN-13:
9781845117450
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
416
Weight:
816.47 gm

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