Pre-20th century history: Safavid Government Institutions

From: The Middle East Journal | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Matthee, Rudi | Copyright information

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 workin...

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