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  Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran - Sussan Babaie, Kathryn Babayan, Ina Baghdiantz-MacCabe, Mussumeh Farhad - Google Books

  http://books.google.de/books?id=2BMVnw9JQh8C&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=Abolala+Soudavar&source=bl&ots=RnwBVNM7RA&sig=mBa5sayPcZ7HlWa

  The Safavid dynasty represented the pinnacle of Iran's power and influence in its early modern history. The evidence of this - the creation of a nation state, military expansion and success, economic dynamism, and the exquisite art and architecture of the…

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  A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire - Sevket Pamuk, Professor of Economic History Sevket Pamuk - Google Books

  https://books.google.de/books?id=Htk3Wn789EQC

  The Ottoman empire stood at the crossroads of intercontinental trade at the dawn of the era of capitalism. This volume examines the monetary history of that empire from its beginnings in the fourteenth century to the end of the first world war. Through a…

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