Imperial Iran in the Eighteenth Century: Identity and State Formation under Nader (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World)
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2026
Series: Book 15 of 15 - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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- Title
- Imperial Iran in the Eighteenth Century: Identity and State Formation under Nader (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World)
- Author
- Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 139955333X
- ISBN 13
- 9781399553339
- Series
- Book 15 of 15: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Offers the first structuralist account of the Naderid Empire’s ideological and institutional foundations
- The first monograph to offer an integrated understanding of state formation in post-Safavid Iran (c.1720–1750)
- Show how politico-cultural, military, administrative and ecclesiastic developments related to one another
- Identifies the profound and long-lasting developments in this period as the emergence of a new conception of state (dowlat), which was defined in terms of Iran and its people (Irān o ahl-e Irān) rather than any dynasty (dudman)
- Demonstrates that, far from the conception of him as a ‘tribal leader’, Nader was an avid state builder and centraliser who instituted a standing army, sustained by a rationalised and expanded bureaucracy in Iran
The 18th-century ‘interregnum’ between the Safavid and Qajar dynasties remains woefully understudied in Iranian history, regarded as a turbulent and inconsequential gap between two major dynastic periods. This book, however, argues that this period saw the emergence of the idea of Iran as the foundation for collective identity and state formation. It traces the development of a sacralised territorial identity that fused an irredentist notion of Iran-realm (Iranzamin) with Shiʿism, culminating in an unprecedented political idea: that of an ‘Iranian state’ (dowlat-e Irān), supposedly formed by the unanimous consensus of the ‘Iranian people’ (ahl-e Irān). The book then covers how this state, under Nader Shah (Nāder-e Irān), subjugated non-Iranian realms to form a new universal Islamic empire. This is the first monograph to offer an integrated understanding of state formation in post-Safavid Iran (c.1720 – 1750), demonstrating how politico-cultural, military, administrative and ecclesiastic developments related to one another. Drawing on a wide range of neglected primary sources in Arabic, Turkish (both Ajami and Ottoman) and Kurdish (Hawrami), as well as Persian and European sources, the book sheds light on Iran in its last iteration as a great power.
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