Pre-20th century history: Safavid Government Institutions

The Middle East Journal | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

Safavid Government Institutions, by Willem Floor. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2001. x + 283 pages. Bibl. to p. 293. Index to p. 311. $29.95 paper.

This work follows a tradition established by Vladimir Minorsky, who in 1948 published a translation-cum commentary of Tadhkirat al-Muluk (the well-known late Safavid administrative manual) and by Klaus Michael Rohrborn, whose Provinzen and Zentralgewalt Persiens im 16. and 17. Jahrhundert, published in 1966, analyzes the actual working of the Safavid administration. While acknowledging the groundwork on the topic laid by Minorsky and ...

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