The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Idea of Iran Vol. 11
Redaktion: Melville, Charles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755645978
• Artikelnr.: 64068616

Autorenporträt

Charles Melville is Professor Emeritus of Persian History at the University of Cambridge, UK, President of the British Institute of Persian Studies and Director of the Shahnama Project, at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the history of Iran, including Every Inch a King, The Mongols' Middle East and Persian Historiography (I.B.Tauris).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Charles Melville
University of Cambridge
UK Nader Shah's Idea of Iran
Ernest Tucker
United States Naval Academy
US Dismembering the Corporate: The Single Portraits of Nader Shah and the Changing Body Politic in Post-Safavid Iran
Janet O'Brien
Courtauld Institute of Art
UK 'The Persian State' and the Safavid Inheritance: Views from the Caspian
1722-1781
Kevin Gledhill
Yale University
US Safavid Nostalgia in Early Qajar Chronicles
Assef Ashraf
University of Cambridge
UK From Chehel-Sotun to Golestan Palace: The Evolution of Royal Wall Painting during the Reign of Fath-'Ali Shah
Kianoosh Motaghedi
Independent Russian-Persian Gift Exchange in the early Qajar Period
Firuza Abdullaeva
University of Cambridge
UK Proto-Nationalism in Early Modern Iran and Afghanistan
Sajjad Nejatie
University of Toronto
Canada Fraying at the Edges: Iran and the Khanates of Central Asia
Fatema Soudavar
Independent Sir William Jones and the Migration of the Idea of Iran to India
John Perry
University of Chicago
US