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The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric, Colin P. Mitchell, London: Tauris, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84511-890-7, 292pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

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Copyright © Kioumars Ghereghlou 2011

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