Rudi Matthee | Academic Influence

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Rudi Matthee is affiliated with the following schools: University of Delaware, University of California, Los Angeles

Why Is Rudi Matthee Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Rudolph P. Matthee, best known as Rudi Matthee , is John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History in the History Department at the University of Delaware, teaching Middle Eastern history and specializing in the history of early modern Iran. He received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California. Matthee is a member of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, for which he also functioned as president twice in 2003-2005 and 2009–2011. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Safavid and Qajar Iran.

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Rudi Matthee's Published Works

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Published Works

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001) (154)
Administrative Stability and Change in Late-17th-Century Iran: The Case of Shaykh ʿAli Khan Zanganah (1669–89) (1994) (66)
The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (2000) (57)
Special Section on Ottoman-Persian Historical Exchanges (2014) (41)
Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (2011) (36)
Transforming dangerous nomads into useful artisans, technicians, agriculturists: education in the Reza Shah period (1993) (36)
Alcohol in the Islamic Middle East: Ambivalence and Ambiguity (2014) (34)
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) (34)
Was Safavid Iran an Empire (2009) (29)
Iran and the surrounding world : interactions in culture and cultural politics (2002) (25)
The Safavids under Western Eyes: Seventeenth-Century European Travelers to Iran (2009) (23)
Drugs and Narcotics in History: Exotic substances: the introduction and global spread of tobacco, coffee, cocoa, tea, and distilled liquor, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries (1995) (23)
The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran (2006) (21)
ANTI-OTTOMAN POLITICS AND TRANSIT RIGHTS THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRADE IN SILK BETWEEN SAFAVID IRAN AND MUSCOVY (1994) (20)
Iran and beyond : essays in Middle Eastern history in honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000) (17)
The Persian Gulf: A Political and Economic History of Five Port Cities 1500–1730 (2011) (17)
Between aloofness and fascination: Safavid views of the west (1998) (13)
The Oxford handbook of Iranian history (2013) (12)
From Coffee to Tea: Shifting Patterns of Consumption in Qajar Iran (2005) (12)
Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and Consumption (1994) (11)
The career of Mohammad Beg, grand vizier of Shah ‘Abbas II (r. 1642–1666) (1991) (10)
The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars (2013) (10)
Between Arabs, Turks and Iranians: The town of Basra, 1600–1700 (2006) (10)
Merchants in Safavid Iran: Participants and Perceptions (2000) (9)
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj. Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf (2009) (9)
Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani And The Egyptian National Debate (1989) (9)
A chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia : the Safavids and the Papal Mission of the 17th and 18th centuries (2012) (8)
Iran and the Surrounding World (2002) (8)
Between Venice and Surat: The Trade in Gold in Late Safavid Iran (2000) (8)
Patterns of Food Consumption in Early Modern Iran (2016) (7)
Studies in the History of Medicine in Iran (2019) (6)
The Imaginary Realm: Europe's Enlightenment Image of Early Modern Iran (2011) (6)
Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone (2015) (6)
The Decline of Safavid Iran in Comparative Perspective (2015) (6)
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race and Scholarship (2012) (6)
« Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 16, 2 (1996), pp. 1-14. (2002) (5)
The Safavid, Afshar, and Zand periods (1998) (5)
The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad ʿAli Period (1995) (4)
Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011) (4)
Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor (2012) (4)
Rudeness and Revilement: Russian–Iranian Relations in the Mid-Seventeenth Century (2013) (4)
« The Shadow Sultan: Succession and Imposture in the Mughal Empire, 1628-1640 ». Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 47/1 (2004), pp. 80-121. (2006) (3)
« Gendered Patronage: Women and Benevolence during the Early Safavid Empire », in : D. Fairchild Ruggles, ed., Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. Albany, SUNY Press, 2000, pp. 123-153. (2004) (3)
The Pursuit of Pleasure (2005) (3)
Infidel Aggression: The Russian Assault on the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza, Mashhad, 1912 (2018) (2)
The Safavid World (2021) (2)
The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times (2019) (2)
The spanish monarchy and Safavid Persia in the early modern period: politics, war and religion (2016) (2)
Blinded by power: The rise and fall of fath 'Alī Khān Dāghestānī, grand vizier under Shāh Soltān Hoseyn Safavī (1127/1715-1133/1720) (2004) (2)
« Herat under the Karts: Social and Political Forces », in : Negin Yavari, Larry Potter and Jean-Marie Oppenheim, eds., Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet. New York, Columbia University Press, 2004, pp. 184-207. (2006) (2)
Boom and Bust: The Port of Basra in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2009) (2)
« Epidemics and the Emergence of an International Sanitary Policy in Iran ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 19, (1999), pp. 122-36. (2002) (2)
From Splendour and Admiration to Ruin and Condescension: Western Travellers to Iran from the Safavids to the Qajars (2016) (2)
« ‘City of the Dead’ : The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 18, 2 (1998), pp. 51-58. (2002) (2)
MINT CONSOLIDATION AND THE WORSENING OF THE LATE SAFAVID COINAGE: THE MINT OF HUWAYZA (2001) (2)
Safavid Iran through the eyes of European travelers (2012) (2)
Changing the Mintmaster: The Introduction of Mechanized Minting in Qajar Iran (1995) (2)
« Learning to Tax: The Political Economy of the Opium Trade in Iran, 1921-1941 ». Journal of Economic History 61, 2001, pp. 95-113. (2004) (2)
« India, Russia and the Eighteenth-Century Transformation of the Central Asian Caravan Trade ». JESHO, 42, 4 (1999), pp. 519-548. (2002) (1)
« The Third Period of the Ottoman Safavid Conflict: Struggle of Political Ideologies (1555-1578) », in : Éva M. Jeremiás, ed., Irano-Turkic Cultural Contacts in the 11th – 17th Centuries. Piliscsaba, [2002] 2003, pp. 161-176. (2005) (1)
« Anti-Ottoman Concerns and Caucasian Interests. Diplomatic Relations between Iran and Russia », in : Michel M. Mazzaoui, ed., Safavid Iran and Her Neighbors. Salt Lake City, The University of Utah Press, 2003, pp. 101-128. (2005) (1)
Iran and The Netherlands; Interwoven through the Ages (Bastar-e ravabet-e Iran va Holand dar gozargah-e zaman) (2014) (1)
Introduction: alcohol production and consumption in the modern Middle East (2021) (1)
« What Is a Frontier? Mapping Kurdistan between Ottomans and Safavids », in : Éva M. Jeremiás, ed., Irano-Turkic Cultural Contacts in the 11th – 17th Centuries. Piliscsaba, [2002] 2003, pp. 203-215. (2005) (1)
Safavid Iran and the Christian Missionary Experience. Between Tolerance and Refutation (2020) (1)
The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796-1926 by Hooshang Amirahmadi (review) (2013) (1)
I. Confessions Of An Armenian Convert: The I‘Tirafnama Of Abkar (ʿali Akbar) Armani (2018) (1)
The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad (2008) (1)
« ‘Its Mortar Mixed with the Sweetnes of Life’: Architecture and Ceremonial at the Shrine of Safi al-Din Ishaq Ardabili during the Reign of shah Tahmasb I ». The Muslim World, 90, (2000), pp. 323-351. (2002) (1)
The History of the Late Revolutions in Persia: An Eyewitness Account of the Fall of the Safavid Dynasty (2013) (1)
Richard W. Bulliet . Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History . New York : Columbia University Press . 2009 . Pp. xi, 167. $35.00. (2011) (1)
Safavid Iran and the “Turkish Question” or How to Avoid a War on Multiple Fronts (2019) (1)
« The Office of Sepahsalar (Commander in Chief in the Safavid State) », in : Bert Fragner et al., eds., Proceedings of the Second European Conference of Iranian Studies. Rome, 1995, pp. 597-615. (2002) (1)
The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602–1747) (2015) (1)
« The Circum-Caspian Areas within the Eurasian International Relationships at the Time of Peter the Great and Nadir Shah Afshar ». Iran and the Caucasus, 5 (2001), pp. 93-100. (2005) (1)
« Sister Shi‘a States? Safavid Iran and the Deccan in the 16th Century ». Deccan Studies, 2/2 (2004), pp. 44-72. (2006) (1)
Faculty Picks: 5 Great Books on Iran (2015) (0)
Atlas Historique du Golfe Persique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) / Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) / Atlas-i tarikhi-yi Khalij-i Fars (Qarn-i shansdihum-qarn-i hizhdihum) (2008) (0)
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760–c. 1870 (2020) (0)
Peter Fibiger Bang and C. A. Bayly, editors. Tributary Empires in Global History. (2013) (0)
A COMMENT ON KIOUMARS GHEREGHLOU'S REVIEW OF RUDI MATTHEE, PERSIA IN CRISIS: SAFAVID DECLINE AND THE FALL OF ISFAHAN (IJMES 47 [2015]: 815–18) (2016) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History (review) (2013) (0)
Iran min al-Dakhil, (Iran From Within), by Fahmi Huwaydi, Cairo: Markaz al-Ahram li al-tarjuma wa al-nashr, 1987, 405 pp. (1989) (0)
Title pages for Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume 23.1-23.2 (2012) (0)
« Īrān va jahān dar bāmdad-e Ṣafaviyān ». Keyhān-e Andīše, 76, (1376/1998), pp. 4-19. (2002) (0)
« Compromised Constitutions: the Iranian Experience with the 1918 Influenza Epidemic ». Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77 (2003), pp. 367 - 393. (2005) (0)
« Nationalism, Politics, and the Development of Archaeology in Iran ». AJA 105, (2001), pp. 51-76. (2004) (0)
WILLEM FLOOR AND MOHAMMAD H. FAGHFOORY, The First Dutch–Persian Commercial Conflict: The Attack on Qishm Island, 1645 (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2004). Pp. 290. $45.00 paper (2006) (0)
« ‘Kampf den kezerischen Qizilbash !’ Die Revolte des Haggi Da’ud (1718-1728) », in : Raoul Motika and Michael Ursinus, eds., Caucasia between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914. Wiesbaden, 2000, pp. 133-145. (2002) (0)
Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity ed. by Kamran Scott Aghaie and Afshin Marashi (review) (2016) (0)
Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius. Harvard University Press, 2003, xv-238 p., bibliography, index. (2005) (0)
Iran and the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History ed. by H. E. Chehabi, Peyman Jafari, and Maral Jefroudi (review) (2016) (0)
La Persia istoriata in Roma (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
« Patrimonial Monarchy : Nasir al-Din Shah, 1848-1896 ». Comparative Sudies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 18, 2 (1998), pp. 17-30. (2002) (0)
« The Secular Judicial System in Safavid Persia ». St. Ir., 29/1 (2000), pp. 9-60. (2005) (0)
Caucasia between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914, ed. Raoul Motika and Michael Ursinus Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2000, ISBN: 389500-139-2, 222 pp. (2003) (0)
« Caucasians in Safavid Service in the 17th Century », in : Raoul Motika and Michael Ursinus, eds., Caucasia between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914. Wiesbaden, 2000, pp. 107-120. (2002) (0)
Review (2002) (0)
FIROOZEH KASHANI-SABET, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804–1946 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999). Pp. 319 (2005) (0)
« Book Translations as a Cultural Activity in Iran 1806-1896 ». Iran, 41 (2003), pp. 279-289. (2006) (0)
« Hallmarks of Humanism : Hygiene and Love of Homeland in Qajar Iran ». American historical Review, 105, (2000), pp. 1171-1203. (2002) (0)
Culture and Cultural Politics under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran ed. by Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner (review) (2015) (0)
The wrath of God or national hero? Nader Shah in European and Iranian historiography (2023) (0)
Review: Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran, by Afshin Marashi (2021) (0)
The Persians amongst the English, Episodes in Anglo-Persian History. By Denis Wright. London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1985. (1985) (0)
Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period (2017) (0)
« On the Commercial Activities of an 18th-Century New Julfa Merchant: Sarhad Bandurean in Amsterdam ». Iran and the Caucasus, 6 (2001), pp. 101-104. (2005) (0)
Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600–1750 , by Stephen Frederick Dale. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) 162 pages, maps, photographs, notes, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. $54.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-45460-3 (1995) (0)
Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture by Farzin Vejdani (review) (2015) (0)
« Tajlu Khanum: Was She Captured by the Ottomans at the Battle of Chaldiran? », in : Éva M. Jeremiás, ed., Irano-Turkic Cultural Contacts in the 11th – 17th Centuries. Piliscsaba, [2002] 2003, pp. 217-232. (2005) (0)
At the Backdoor of the Levant: Anglo-Dutch Competition in the Persian Gulf, 1623–1766 (2000) (0)
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran by Afshin Marashi (review) (2021) (0)
Reviews (2010) (0)
Safavid Iran from Shāh Safi to Shāh Soltān Hoseyn (2021) (0)
Perceptions of Iran: History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic ed. by Ali M. Ansari (review) (2014) (0)
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Michael North, eds., Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (2017) (0)
Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800 edited by Stephanie Cronin (review) (2013) (0)
« The Anonymous Coinage of the Barakzays and Their Rivals in Afghanistan : A Reappraisal ». Supplement to Oriental Numismatic Newsletter, (1999), pp. 1-28. (2002) (0)
« Coffeehouse, Guilds and Oriental Despotism. Government and Civil Society in Late 17th to Early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, as seen from Paris and London ». Archives européennes de sociologie / European Journal of Sociology, 45/1 (2004), pp. 23-42. (2006) (0)
Writing Capitalism into Iranian History (2023) (0)
« Towards the Interrelations of Iran and Georgia in the 16th-18th Centuries », in : Raoul Motika and Michael Ursinus, eds., Caucasia between the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1555-1914. Wiesbaden, Reichert Verlag, 2000, pp. 121-132. (2002) (0)
The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride (2021) (0)
Reviews of Books:Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs. Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran Kathryn Babayan (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Trade and commerce between Iran and India during the Safavid period (1505-1707). Delhi, Indian Bibliographies Bureau, 2003, xvi+197 p., bibliography, no index. (2005) (0)
Safavid Commercial History (2021) (0)
« The Ottoman Archives as a source for the Study of Qajar Iran ». Iranian Studies 37/3 (2004), pp. 499-509. (2006) (0)
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation. By Reza Zia-Ebrahimi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 312p. $60.00 cloth. (2017) (0)
« The Telegraph and Frontier Politics : Modernization and the Demarcation of Iran’s borders ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 16, 2 (1998), pp. 59-72. (2002) (0)
Iranian Capitalism (2020) (0)
Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, edited by Robert Gleave. New York: RoutlegeCurzon, 2005. 482 pages, illustrations, index. US$115.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-415-33814 (2005) (0)
A Safe Space for the Shah and His Women: The Practice of Quruq in the Safavid Period (2019) (0)
Iran at the Crossroads of Civilizations: Scholars and Lawyers Speaking about Iranian History and Cultural Heritage (2020) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Introduction: The Safavids in Global Perspective (2015) (0)
« Shah Tahmasp I : Making the Best of Bad Times ». International Journal of Kurdish Studies, 12, 1-2 (1998), pp. 71-95. (2002) (0)
« An Overview of the Coinage of Sistan : I : Before the Mongols ». Yarmouk Numismatics, 10, (1998), pp. 11-30. (2002) (0)
Historiographical Reflections on the Eighteenth Century in Iranian History (2018) (0)
Studies in Safavid Mind, Society, and Culture , by James J. Reid. 427 pages, appendices, index. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2000. $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-56859-089-X (2001) (0)
NADIR SHAH IN IRANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: WARLORD OR NATIONAL HERO? (2018) (0)
« An Overview of the Coinage of Sistan : II : After the Mongols ». Yarmouk Numismatics, 11, (1999), pp. 7-17. (2002) (0)
The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars by Chelsi Mueller (review) (2021) (0)
World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism (review) (2005) (0)
Iran: A Modern History (2019) (0)
The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars , by Chelsi Mueller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 274 pages. $99.99. (2021) (0)
« Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts ». Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 18, 2 (1998), pp. 2-16. (2002) (0)
Special Maps of Persia 1477–1925. By Cyrus Alai (2012) (0)
“Neither Eastern nor Western, Iranian”: How the Quest for Self-Sufficiency Helped Shape Iran’s Modern Nationalism (2020) (0)
« Shah ‘Abbas, the English East India Company and the Cannonneers of Fars ». Itinerario, 24, (2000), pp. 104-125. (2002) (0)
Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism, Elena Andreeva, Abingdon (UK) and New York: Routledge, 2007, ISBN-10 0-415-77153-6, xii+273pp. (2009) (0)
Pre-20th Century History: Safavid Government Institutions (2002) (0)
Kermanshah City and Province (2021) (0)
Persian Historiography, Vol. X of A History of Persian Literature by Charles Melville (ed.) (2014) (0)
Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (review) (2011) (0)
Introduction to “historiography and representation in Safavid and Afsharid Iran” (1998) (0)
Arab commentaries on the Iranian revolution (1984) (0)

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