A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929 Mirzai Behnaz A.
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929 Mirzai Behnaz A. Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before…
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929 Mirzai Behnaz A.
Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. As the slave trade between Iran and these regions shifted over time, it transformed the nation and helped forge its unique culture and identity. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south.
Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century. Thus, a history of Iranian slavery is crucial to understanding the character of the modern nation.Drawing on extensive archival research in Iran, Tanzania, England, and France, as well as fieldwork and interviews in Iran, Behnaz A. She investigates how foreign military incursion, frontier insecurity, political instability,