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Article: The Afghan Occupation of Safavid Persia 1771-1729. (Reviews of Books).
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- October 1, 2001
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The Afghan Occupation of Safavid Persia 1771-1729. Compiled, annotated, and translated by WILLEM FLOOR. Les Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 19. Paris: ASSOCIATION POUR L'AVANCEMENT DES ETUDES IRANIENNES, 1998. Pp. 389.
Willem Floor has long been actively making the information on Iran in the Dutch national archives available to a larger audience. This collection of reports of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the dying days of the Safavid era is an example of that endeavor. The book came about in a roundabout fashion, for its English text served as the original for a Persian translation that was published in 1986-87, as Bar oftadan-e Safaviyan, bar amadan-e Mahmud ...