Speaker: Professor Rudi Mathhee
Language: English
The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterized late Safavid Iran. “Persia in Crisis” challenges this view. Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of turbulence in Iranian history...
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About the Speaker:
Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of Delaware. Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, UCLA, 1991.
Books: The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (Cambridge UP, 1999), prize for best non-Persian language book on Iranian history, Iranian Ministry of Culture; honorable mention for British-Kuwaiti Friendship; of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton UP, 2005), Albert Hourani Book Prize, awarded by the Middle East Studies Association of North America; and Saidi Sirjani Prize, awarded by the International Society for Iranian Studies; Iqtisad va siyasat-i khariji-yi `asr-i Safavi, trans. H. Zandiyeh. (Tehran, 2008); Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (I.B. Tauris, 2012), British-Kuwaiti Friendship Prize; and The Monetary History of Iran, 1500-1925 (with Willem Floor and Patrick Clawson ) (I.B. Tauris, 2013).
Co-editor of Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000); of Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics (2002); and of Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011).
Book review editor of Journal of Iranian Studies, 1997-2007. President of the Association of Persian-Speaking Societies, 2003-2005 and 2009-11. Consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica; Co-editor of Der Islam.
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