Table of Contents

Introduction, Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK Nader Shah’s Idea of Iran, Ernest Tucker, United States Naval Academy, US Dismembering the Corporate: The Single Portraits of Nader Shah and the Changing Body Politic in Post-Safavid Iran, Janet O’Brien, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK ‘The Persian State’ and the Safavid Inheritance: Views from the Caspian, 1722–1781, Kevin Gledhill, Yale University, US Safavid Nostalgia in Early Qajar Chronicles, Assef Ashraf, University of Cambridge, UK From Chehel-Sotun to Golestan Palace: The Evolution of Royal Wall Painting during the Reign of Fath-‘Ali Shah, Kianoosh Motaghedi, Independent Russian–Persian Gift Exchange in the early Qajar Period, Firuza Abdullaeva, University of Cambridge, UK Proto-Nationalism in Early Modern Iran and Afghanistan, Sajjad Nejatie, University of Toronto, Canada Fraying at the Edges: Iran and the Khanates of Central Asia, Fatema Soudavar, Independent Sir William Jones and the Migration of the Idea of Iran to India, John Perry, University of Chicago, US

Promotional Information

An interdisciplinary examination of Iran in the volatile 18th century

About the Author

Charles Melville is Professor Emeritus of Persian History at the University of Cambridge, UK, President of the British Institute of Persian Studies and Director of the Shahnama Project, at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the history of Iran, including Every Inch a King, The Mongols’ Middle East and Persian Historiography (I.B.Tauris).