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  • 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 €

  • 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 €