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The Early Safavids

open access: yes, 2018
The nascent Safavid uprising by the militant shaykhs Junayd and Haydar (grandfather and father of Shah Isma‘il) tried to create cohesion among their motley army of Turkic recruits from Anatolia and others through uniformization, the rapid distribution of booty, and even the recruitment of slave soldiers.
Ali Anooshahr
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Safavids and Ozbeks

open access: yes, 2021
Florian Schwarz
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Safavid Commercial History

2021
Abstract Safavid, Iran, was a modest economic player in West and South Asia in terms of population numbers, productivity, and resources. Yet its strategic location at the crossroads of Asia’s commercial arteries allowed it to punch well above its weight in terms of trade—especially trade in transit. The reign of Shah ‘Abbas I (r. 1587–
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Was Safavid Iran an Empire?

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2009
AbstractThis paper examines the organizing ideological and infrastructural principles of the Safavid state structure and questions whether the Safavid state had the capacity and universality to qualify as an empire. Until now, the Safavid state has only been given equal status to the Ottoman and Mughal state as a “gunpowder empire”.
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The Safavid State and Polity

Iranian Studies, 1974
I regard the arguments about nationalism or the lack of it, and about whether or not the Safavid state can be called a nation-state, as in many ways sterile. What I am much more interested in is the question whether or not the Safavids created a state at all, in any generally accepted sense of the word.
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