Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Writing tribal history
- PART I The Safavid state and the origins of the Shahsevan
- PART II The rise of the Shahsevan confederacy
- 5 Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli
- 6 Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil
- 7 The Shahsevan tribal confederacy
- PART III The Shahsevan tribes in the Great Game
- PART IV The end of the tribal confederacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index of topics
- Index of places, peoples, persons, dynasties, parties, companies
- Index of authors quoted or discussed
- Index of tribal names
- Plate section
5 - Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Writing tribal history
- PART I The Safavid state and the origins of the Shahsevan
- PART II The rise of the Shahsevan confederacy
- 5 Badr Khan Sari-Khan-Beyli
- 6 Nazar 'Ali Khan Shahsevan of Ardabil
- 7 The Shahsevan tribal confederacy
- PART III The Shahsevan tribes in the Great Game
- PART IV The end of the tribal confederacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index of topics
- Index of places, peoples, persons, dynasties, parties, companies
- Index of authors quoted or discussed
- Index of tribal names
- Plate section
Summary
Ardabil and Moghan under Russian and Ottoman occupation
In Chapter Two, I related Krusinski's account of the failure of the ‘Shahsevan’ to respond to Tahmasp Mirza's appeal from Qazvin in 1722, arguing that this was probably not an appeal such as those issued by Soltan Mohammad and Shah 'Abbas some 150 years earlier, but rather a general appeal to a provincial militia of former Qizilbash chiefs and their followers.
If the Shahsevan of Ardabil and Moghan were included in this appeal, and we may assume they were, it is not surprising if they were unwilling to leave their homeland. The previous year, in response to Shi'i maltreatment of the Sunnis in Shamakhi, just to the north of Moghan, Sunni Lazgi tribesmen from Daghestan had raided that city, and had sought and obtained protection from the Ottomans, who appointed a Governor there. During the raids, Russian property in Shamakhi had suffered, thus providing Peter the Great – nominally Shah Soltan Hosein's ally, and freed that year from his military involvements with Sweden – with a pretext for sending an expedition into Iranian territory. So, late in the summer of 1722, at the very time when Tahmasp's appeals from Qazvin would have been arriving, the tribes in Moghan and Ardabil must have been more than apprehensive for themselves and their own lands, menaced by both Ottoman supporters in Shamakhi and the great Russian army which was steadily making its way down the west coast of the Caspian.
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- Frontier Nomads of IranA Political and Social History of the Shahsevan, pp. 95 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997