附註:"Our panel was entitled "New Elites of Isfahan: Patronage, Aesthetics and Power in Safavid Iran", Second Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies (SIS/AIIS), Washington DC, May 1998"--Page 149.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration and Usage; 1. Slaves of the Shah; 2. The Safavid Household Reconfigured: Concubines, Eunuchs and Military Slaves; 3. Armenian Merchants and Slaves: Financing the Safavid Treasury; 4. Launching from Isfahan: Slaves and the Construction of the Empire; Plate Section; 5. Military Slaves in the Provinces: Collecting and Shaping the Arts; Appendix; Notes on the Text; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:The Savafid dynasty represented, in political, cultural and economic terms the pinnacle of Iran's power and influence in its early modern history. The evidence for this -the creation of a nation state, military expansion and success, economic dynamism and the exquisite art and architecture of the period - is well-known. What is less understood is the extent to which the Safavid success depended on - and was a product of - a class of elite originating from outside Iran: the slaves of Caucasian descent and the Armenian merchants of New Julfa in the city of Isfahan. It was these groups, bolstered.
