Slaves of the Shah; new elites of Safavid Iran.
1860647219Slaves of the Shah; new elites of Safavid Iran.
Babaie, Sussan et al.
I.B. Tauris & Co.
2004
218 pages
$65.00
Hardcover
Library of Middle East history; v.3
DS292
Babaie (Islamic art history, U. of Michigan), Kathryn Babayan (Iranian history and culture, U. of Michican), Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe (Armenian history, Tufts U.), and Massumeh Farhad (curator of Islamic art, Smithsonian Institution) examine the royal household slave system of the Safavid culture in Iran 1501-1722, focusing on the first half of the 17th century. Rather than attempting a history of the organization of slavery during the period, they highlight cases that typify the agency of slaves and encapsulate the potentialities of their status. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan.
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