{"product_id":"the-safavid-world-rudi-matthee-9781138944060","title":"The Safavid World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Safavid World\u003c\/em\u003e brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to political history and religious life, the chapters in this volume cover economic conditions, commercial links and activities, social relations, and artistic expressions. They do so in ways that stretch both the temporal and geographical perimeters of the subject, and contributors also examine Safavid Iran with an eye to both its Mongol and Timurid antecedents and its long afterlife following the fall of the dynasty. Unlike traditional scholarship which tended to view the country as unique, \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e, and barely affected by the outside world, \u003ci\u003eThe Safavid World\u003c\/i\u003e situates Iran in a wider, regional or global context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of the Safavid world and the history and culture of Iran and the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudi Matthee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138944068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138944060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023","brand":"Rudi Matthee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991892066559,"sku":"9781138944060","price":270.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f9abdb5-e2a8-4150-b496-5656fbd73cc5.jpg?v=1683312842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-safavid-world-rudi-matthee-9781138944060","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}