Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Usage xiii 1 Slaves of the Shah Sussan Babaie, Kathryn Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, Massumeh Farhad 2 The Safavid Household Reconfigured: Concubines, Eunuchs and Military Slaves Kathryn Babayan 3 Armenian Merchants and Slaves: Financing the Safavid Treasury Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe 4 Launching from Isfahan: Slaves and the Construction of the Empire Sussan Babaie 5 Military Slaves in the Provinces: Collecting and Shaping the Arts Massumeh Farhad Appendix

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At the turn of the 16th/ 17th centuries, the Safavid state in large measure depended on an elite class of Royal slave.

About the Author

Sussan Babaie is the Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at the University of Michigan. Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe holds the Jafarian Darakjian Chair in Armenian History at Tufts University. Massumeh Farhad is the Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art/ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C

Reviews

"A well-researched book that draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources to illuminate a key period in Iran's history...The authors bring great scholarship and erudition to their work."--Asian Affairs

"The exhaustive bibliography at the end testifies to the erudition that is the hallmark of this book."--The Muslim World Book Review