Safavid

For coinage and minting in Safavid Iran see Minorsky's Tadhkirat al-Muluk, pp. 58 – 65 (of the English translation of the original Persian), and the commentary on that portion of text on pp. 126 – 35. back

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

"Rahdars and Their Tolls in Safavid and Afsharid Iran."

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Sha`lan has settled in Jordan, and before suddenly emerging as a favorite for US occupation he led the most consistent anti-Iranian campaign often referring to Iranian influence as "Safavid", implying some imperial ambition on the part of Iran, which greatly offended the US, which abhors all empires, including its own.

Friday, September 30, 2005 As'ad 2005

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010

It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.

Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010