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  • Travels in Persia, 1617-1622
    Pietro della Valle / Willem Floor
    A landmark of seventeenth-century travel writing-now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. When the Roman nobleman Pietro della Valle set out for the East in 1614, he imagined a pilgrimage. What he produced instead was one of the most vivid and detailed portraits of Safavid Iran ever written. His letters from Isfahan, Shiraz, Farahabad...
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    206,53 €

  • A Swedish Officer’s Account of Turkey and Persia, 1816-1817
    Carl Peter von Heidenstam / Willem Floor
    First published in Swedish in 1825 and never before translated into English, Carl Peter von Heidenstam’s Nägra Underrättelser... occupies a unique place among early nineteenth-century European writings on the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran. Far from a conventional travelogue, the text offers a concise, analytically structured account of governmental, military, and religious inst...
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    101,65 €

  • Portuguese and Spanish Sources on Safavid Iran
    António Tenreiro / Mestre Afonso / Willem M Floor
    Translated into English for the first time, this volume brings together four remarkable yet long-overlooked travelogues - three Portuguese and one Spanish - offering vivid firsthand accounts of 16th- and 17th-century journeys through Iran and the Ottoman Empire. These Iberian travelers open a rare window into Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey, revealing the political, cultural, a...
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    100,82 €

  • Qeshm
    D. T. Potts / Willem M Floor
    Located in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island is the first serious, book-length study of the island’s history. From the fourteenth century onward, the island was an important dependency of the Kingdom of Hormuz, often providing drinking water to Hormuz. The island remained critical as a source of ...
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    100,90 €

  • Feudal Relations in Iran, Azerbaijan & Armenia, 1500-1900
    Ilya P Petrushevsky / Willem M Floor
    The renowned Russian Iranist Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky devoted his career to the study of agriculture and feudal relations in Iran. In this book he analyzes them, giving particular attention to Azerbaijan and Armenia from 1500 to 1900.Petrushevsky first examines Iran’s feudal class and its organization, and points out that Safavid Iran was not a national state, as others have...
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    140,87 €

  • HISTORY OF THE GANJA KHANATE
    Elgun Babayev / Willem M Floor
    Although the broad outline of the history of Iran in the eighteenth century is known, it still is one of the most 'unknown' periods in the history of Iran. Moreover, much of that 'known' history concerns the first half of the eighteenth century, mostly regarding Central and Southern Iran. Azerbaijan was one of Iran’s most important provinces, yet events that took place there af...
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    101,38 €

  • Khorshid Khanom
    Forough Sajadi / Willem M Floor
    Originally, Khorshid Khanom or 'Sun Lady,' was the symbol of the Mother Goddess, but later she became the goddess of fertility and water, and the protector of her believers. Since Achaemenid times and thereafter, she was the personification of Anahita, who was immaculate and fiery, and associated with fertility, water, and Venus.Despite Khorshid Khanom’s ubiquitous presence in ...
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    67,04 €

  • Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748
    Willem Floor
    In Russian Sources on Iran, 1719-1748, polyglot scholar Willem Floor brings together annotated translations of reports by officials in Russian service that so far have either been used rarely by scholars, or not at all. It includes a detailed account of the mapping of the Caspian Sea by a Russian team from 1719 to 1720; and the Russian occupations of Derbend in 1722, of Baku in...
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    140,76 €

  • History of Glass and Ceramics in Iran, 1500-1925
    Willem Floor
    This comprehensive and richly detailed study by renowned scholar Willem Floor is the culmination of what is known about domestic glass and ceramic production-location, quality, craftsmen-in Iran from 1500 until the end of the Qajar period in 1925. Because of increasing imports, the Qajar government tried to improve domestic glass and ceramic techniques through transfer of techn...
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    83,69 €

  • History of Paper in Iran, 1501-1925
    Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes / Willem Floor
    The Chinese invented papermaking, which by the 8th century had reached the Muslim world in Samarkand and Baghdad, and Spain by the 11th century. Much later at the end of the 18th century onwards, modern, industrial papermaking was developed by the Europeans. The History of Paper in Iran, 1501 to 1925 sets out for the reader the types of paper made in Iran during the Safavid and...
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    83,88 €

  • Food Security in Iran
    Willem M Floor
    Until recent times, Iran regularly had to cope with local or national famines. The various governments, until the second decade of the twentieth century, had neither a policy nor institutional arrangements to deal with grain shortages, artificial or not, and the resulting famines. In severe cases of famine governments might have temporarily intervened in the market, but usually...
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    66,64 €

  • The Monetary History of Iran
    Patrick Clawson / Rudi Matthee / Willem Floor
    The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as well as its political and social history. This book is the first detailed study of Iran’s monetary history from the advent of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the end of Qajar rule in 1925. Using an array of previously unpublished sources in ten languages, the authors consider the spec...
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    121,28 €