Our colleague, András Barati’s book titled “Exercising Authority and Representing Rule: Eighteenth-Century Persian decrees from the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad” has been published by Brill. The book provides an in-depth look at early modern Persian diplomatics through the examination of Persian decrees from the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, as well as the administrative and political history of Iran and Afghanistan in the 18th century.

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