This final volume of The Cambridge History of Iran covers the period from 1722 to 1979. Part I sets out the political framework. Beginning in the reign of Nadir Shah, it traces the establishment of the Qajar dynasty and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi autocracy. Part II discusses relations with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, European countries, Britain and British India. Part III covers economic and social developments, including systems of land tenure and revenue administration, the tribes, the traditional Iranian city, European economic penetration and the impact of the oil industry. In Part IV religious and cultural life is examined. There are chapters on religious change and Iranian arts and crafts - including architecture, ceramics, painting, metalwork and textiles, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries - and popular entertainment, literature, and the press in modern Iran. The contributors to this volume represent the most informed and up-to-date international scholarship on the region. Together they have provided a unique survey of the modern period in Iranian history, leading up to the formation of the Islamic Republic.
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Iran from 1722-1979. This volume considers the political framework of Iran, the Ottoman Empire is its international contest and economic, social and religious developments up to the formation of the Islamic Republic.
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The year 1688 has recently found acceptance as that Nadir's birth, but one of the best Iranian authorities for his time, the Jahan-gusha-yi Nadiri of Mirza Mahdi Khan Astarabadi, spells out A.H. 1110 as the year, and 28 Muharram as the day, which gives us 6 August A.D. 1698. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Karim Khan, Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Gulf, Nadir Shah, United States, Muhammad Shah, Great Britain, Riza Shah, Soviet Union, East India Company, Middle East, National Front, Quli Khan, Aghi Muhammad, Muhammad Hasan Khan, Harford Jones, Sayyid Muhammad, Saint Petersburg, Foreign Office, Central Asia, Adil Shah, Amir-i Kabir, Bandar Rig, India Office, Mahdi Khan New!
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The year 1688 has recently found acceptance as that Nadir's birth, but one of the best Iranian authorities for his time, the Jahan-gusha-yi Nadiri of Mirza Mahdi Khan Astarabadi, spells out A.H. 1110 as the year, and 28 Muharram as the day, which gives us 6 August A.D. 1698. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Karim Khan, Agha Muhammad Khan, Persian Gulf, Nadir Shah, United States, Muhammad Shah, Great Britain, Riza Shah, Soviet Union, East India Company, Middle East, National Front, Quli Khan, Aghi Muhammad, Muhammad Hasan Khan, Harford Jones, Sayyid Muhammad, Saint Petersburg, Foreign Office, Central Asia, Adil Shah, Amir-i Kabir, Bandar Rig, India Office, Mahdi Khan New!
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- A Literary History of Persia: Volume 1, From the Earliest Times until Firdawsi (v. 1) by Edward G. Browne on 9 pages
- Iran and Islam by Clifford Edmund Bosworth on 6 pages
- A History of Persia (Trubner's Oriental Series) by Percy Molesworth Sykes on 6 pages
- Journey from Bengal to England ( 2 volume set) by George Forster on 4 pages
- The Strangling of Persia (Persia Observed Series) by W. M. Shuster in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries, and Other Stories by Guive Mirfendereski on 8 pages
- The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant by Michael Axworthy on 6 pages
- Frontier Fictions by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History and Literature in Iran (Pembroke Persian Papers) by Charles Melville in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings (Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh) by Robert Hillenbrand on page 33, and page 139
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