Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran
Author:   Sussan Babaie ,  Kathryn Babayan ,  Ina Baghdiantz-MacCabe ,  Mussumeh Farhad
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781788310864


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 October 2017
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Author:   Sussan Babaie ,  Kathryn Babayan ,  Ina Baghdiantz-MacCabe ,  Mussumeh Farhad
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9781788310864


ISBN 10:   1788310861
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 October 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Usage xiii 1 Slaves of the Shah Sussan Babaie, Kathryn Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, Massumeh Farhad 2 The Safavid Household Reconfigured: Concubines, Eunuchs and Military Slaves Kathryn Babayan 3 Armenian Merchants and Slaves: Financing the Safavid Treasury Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe 4 Launching from Isfahan: Slaves and the Construction of the Empire Sussan Babaie 5 Military Slaves in the Provinces: Collecting and Shaping the Arts Massumeh Farhad Appendix

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A well-researched book that draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources to illuminate a key period in Iran's history...The authors bring great scholarship and erudition to their work. --Asian Affairs The exhaustive bibliography at the end testifies to the erudition that is the hallmark of this book. --The Muslim World Book Review


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Sussan Babaie is the Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at the University of Michigan. Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe holds the Jafarian Darakjian Chair in Armenian History at Tufts University. Massumeh Farhad is the Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art/ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C

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