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By Scott C. Levi

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69, 71–72. For discussions of Iran’s role in the movement of precious metals to India, cf. Rudolph P. Matthee, The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600–1730, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 67–68; Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, The Shah’s Silk for Europe’s Silver: the Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India (1530–1750), University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies, no. 15, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999, passim. 65 Gilles Veinstein, ‘Commercial relations between India and the Ottoman Empire (late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries): a few notes and hypotheses,’ in Chaudhury and Morineau, eds, Merchants, Companies and Trade, pp.

1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1956, p. 66. 19 Similar perspectives are presented in Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Islam and the Russian Empire: Reform and Revolution in Central Asia, translated by Quintin Hoare, London: I. B. Tauris & Co, 1988, pp. 2–3, and Seymour Becker, Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865–1924, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, p. 4. 24 Not only can deurbanization in one region simply be representative of improved economic opportunity 20 Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand, A.

The Safavid dynasty maintained control of Iran, although sometimes only tenuously, until the Ghilzai Afghans invaded the country in 1722. The Afghan invasion was short-lived, but it opened the door of opportunity for Nadir Quli Afshar, the chief of the Turkman Afshar tribe and a highly skilled military commander under the Safavid emperor Shah Tahmasp II (r. 1722–32). By 1727 Nadir had ejected the Afghans from Iran and less than a decade later he assumed the title ‘Shah’ for himself, ruling as Nadir Shah from 1736 until he was assassinated by a group of tribal chiefs in 1747.

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