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Comments on “The Qajar Uymaq in The Safavid Period, 1500–1722”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

R.D. McChesney
R.D. McChesney*
Affiliation:
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Literatures at New York University
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The study of Iranian history in the Safavid period is at a relatively rudimentary stage. Despite the wealth of chronicle, biographical, numismatic, documentary, and journalistic material available, few monographic studies of Safavid institutions have been produced. As Minorsky pointed out four decades ago, “not until all the available sources have been properly scrutinized and more material…discovered, shall we be able to get to the bedrock of social and economic conditions under the Safavids.”

His admonition holds true for political institutions as well. Certain fundamental features of the political life of Safavid Iran are well known to its students. But aside from the state structure itself, as analyzed by Minorsky in his translation of and commentary on the Tadhkirat al-muluk and in articles by Roger Savory and Ann K. S. Lambton, other aspects of political life—for instance the Safaviyya and the persistence of Sufi loyalties in political, life, the character and evolution of the qizilbash as a political party, the political integration of local aristocrats (e.g., the maliks of Farah and Sistan and the divs of Mazandaran), and the organization and functioning of tribal uymaqs—remain largely unstudied.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1-2 , Spring Winter 1981 , pp. 87 - 105
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1981

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Notes

1. Published in Iranian Studies, XI (1978) (State and Society in Iran), ed. Amin Banani.

2. Minorsky, V. M., Tadhkirat al-Muluk (London, 1943), p. 12.Google Scholar

3. Petrushevsky, op. cit., pp. 89-110.

4. Ibid., pp. 94-5.

5. Ibid., p. 95.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid., p. 96.

8. M. B. Dickson, op. cit., p. 7.

9. Ibid., p. 8.

10. Ibid., p. 9.

11. J. Reid, op. cit., p. 120.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., p. 121.

14. Ibid. The reference is to pp. 100-105 of Tadhkirat al-Muluk.

15. Tadhkirat al-Muluk, p. 100.

16. Müller, Hans, ed. and trans., Die Chronik Hulasat al-Tawarih des Qazi Ahmad Qumi (Wiesbaden, 1964).Google Scholar

17. Iskandar Beg Munshi, Tarikh-i ‘Alam-ara-yi ‘Abbasi 2v. n.d., ed. Iraj Afshar.

18. Minorsky, op. cit., pp. 46 (three mentions), 48, 75.

19. Reid, op. cit., p. 122.

20. Iskandar Beg Munshi, op. cit., p. 206.

21. Ibid., p. 500.

22. Minorsky, op. cit., p. 36 and index.

23. Petrushevsky, op. cit., p. 87.

24. E.g., “the rest of the aqauam of the Dhu'l-Qadr, Khulasat, p. 21.

25. Iskandar Beg Munshi, op. cit., p. 99.

26. Ibid., pp. 844-7. Although the index to the Afshar edition only has one entry for the name it is clear that at least two persons are intended.

27. Savory, R. M., trans., History of Shah ‘Abbas the Great by Eskandar Beg Monshi 2v. (Boulder, 1978).Google Scholar

28. Iskandar Beg, op. cit., p. 212 where the text reads “az ta'ifah-yi Takallu..Sulagh Husayni Takallu-ra bijanib-i Kurdistan firistadah” also pp. 197, 275, and 322.

29. Ibid., pp. 70-73, 81.

30. Minorsky, op. cit., pp. 14 and 17 for his comparison of the Qizilbash lists in Iskandar Beg Munshi's work.