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When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock Throne for nearly half a century.
In this book, the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah, Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran. Amanat poses a fundamental question: how did monarchy, the center-piece of an ancient political order, withstand and adjust to the challenges of modern times, both at home and abroad? Nasir al-Din Shah's life and career, his upbringing and personality, and his political conduct provide remarkable material for answering this question.
By examining the way Nasir al-Din Shah was transformed from an insecure crown prince and later an erratic boy-king in the 1840s and 50s into a ruler with substantial control over his government and foreign policy in the 1860s and beyond, Amanat explores a pattern in the consolidation of traditional monarchies as they accommodated themselves to the forces of modernity.
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Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy
2008, I.B. Tauris
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The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 PUBLICATION CANCELLED
March 20, 2007, I. B. Tauris
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Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
December 1998, Mage Publishers
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Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
1997, University of California Press
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Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
1997, University of California Press
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