Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (International Library of Iranian Studies)

by RudiMatthee (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $70.30

  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. This book challenges this view. It takes a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty.