Bøker av Rudi (University of Delaware Matthee

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.

Suitable for researchers of Iranian and economic history, this title presents a study of Iran's monetary history from the advent of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the end of Qajar rule in 1925.