Tribalism and Society in Islamic Iran, 1500-1629

Iranian society came under the domination of tribal elites during the first part of the Safavid era.  This book seeks to show how Iranian elites differed from other contemporary elites, to assess the place of the Iranian system in the world pattern of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and to contribute toward the understanding of a non-European society on its own terms and according to its own realities.