Description
Book SynopsisTraces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their lands to the outside world.
Trade Review"Arash Khazeni accomplishes what many promise but few do: he writes peoples of the margins into history. . . . This lucidly written, nuanced monograph . . . will be a valuable resource in advanced undergraduate and graduate classrooms."
-- Samri Ates * American Historical Review *
"In taking the view from below, as it were, from the level of Bakhtiyari people and their leaders, Dr. Khazeni introduces here an entirely new historical perspective on the much romanticized Zagros peoples; incorporating ethnographic data and attending to environmental conditions he broadens the historical perspective to its fullest and allows an appreciation of the circumstances of life that transcends other historical accounts of conditions of the Zagros tribes; and in his extensive and thorough use of documents and illustrations of all kinds that pertain to Bakhtiyari history, his treatment of sources as a historian is flawless. Altogether, this exemplary book fully fits the scope and spirit of the Pourshariati Award."
* Middle East Studies Association *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1 On the Periphery of Nineteenth-Century Iran
2 The City of Isfahan and Its Hinterland
3 A Road through the Mountains
4 In the Fields of Oil
5 The Bakhtiyari Tribes in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
