Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia

Name: Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia
Author: Morrison, Alexander

İsim	Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia
Yazar	Morrison, Alexander
Basım Yeri	Cambridge - Cambridge University Press
Konu	Aggressiveness, Imperialism, Political development, War
Tür	Kitap
Dil	eng,fas
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2024.62
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_proquest_journals_3206806375
Lokasyon	Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection
Notlar	This compact book offers a closely researched account of the early years of the Qajar dynasty and state, whose political development was permanently marked by the territorial struggle with the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus in its first three decades. Behrooz's work builds on Muriel Atkin's classic Russia and Iran 1780–1928 (1980), and although unlike Atkin he does not make use of any sources in Russian, the range of Persian-language material he draws upon is much greater, and the two books complement each other well. The first two chapters effectively set the political scene, providing a review of the circumstances of Aqa Muhammad Khan's rise to power, his struggle with the Zand rulers of Shiraz, and the extensive preparations he made to secure the succession of his nephew, Baba Khan Jahanbani, the future Fath Ali Shah. These bore fruit when Aqa Muhammad Shah was murdered by his own servants in Shusha in 1797. Significantly, this took place during a campaign to subdue Qarabagh. The central figure of the book, and of the wars against Russia, is Fath Ali's son Abbas Mirza, but a particular strength of Behrooz's account is his close understanding of the family and intertribal relationships among the Qajar elite, as well as of the petty dynasties that ruled in Qarabagh, Iravan, Badkubeh (Baku), and Derbent in this period.
Telif Hakkı	The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Association for Iranian Studies
Görüntüle	Iranian studies, 2025, Vol.58 (1), p.176-178

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Review of Maziar Behrooz - Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia

Yazar Morrison, Alexander

Basım Yeri Cambridge - Cambridge University Press

Konu Aggressiveness, Imperialism, Political development, War

Tür Kitap

Dil eng,fas

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası ISSN: 0021-0862, EISSN: 1475-4819, DOI: 10.1017/irn.2024.62

Kayıt Numarası cdi_proquest_journals_3206806375

Lokasyon Cambridge Journals: 2024 Full Collection

Notlar This compact book offers a closely researched account of the early years of the Qajar dynasty and state, whose political development was permanently marked by the territorial struggle with the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus in its first three decades. Behrooz's work builds on Muriel Atkin's classic Russia and Iran 1780–1928 (1980), and although unlike Atkin he does not make use of any sources in Russian, the range of Persian-language material he draws upon is much greater, and the two books complement each other well. The first two chapters effectively set the political scene, providing a review of the circumstances of Aqa Muhammad Khan's rise to power, his struggle with the Zand rulers of Shiraz, and the extensive preparations he made to secure the succession of his nephew, Baba Khan Jahanbani, the future Fath Ali Shah. These bore fruit when Aqa Muhammad Shah was murdered by his own servants in Shusha in 1797. Significantly, this took place during a campaign to subdue Qarabagh. The central figure of the book, and of the wars against Russia, is Fath Ali's son Abbas Mirza, but a particular strength of Behrooz's account is his close understanding of the family and intertribal relationships among the Qajar elite, as well as of the petty dynasties that ruled in Qarabagh, Iravan, Badkubeh (Baku), and Derbent in this period.

Telif Hakkı The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Association for Iranian Studies

Görüntüle Iranian studies, 2025, Vol.58 (1), p.176-178