Guarded Domains of Iran

Stamp of Ahmad Shah Qajar. The term "the Guarded Domains of Iran" is visible on the top of the stamp.

The Guarded Domains of Iran (Persian: ممالک محروسه ایران, mamâlek e mahrose ye irân), or simply the Domains of Iran (ممالک ایران, mamâlek e irân) and the Guarded Domains (ممالک محروسه, mamâlek e mahrose), was the common and official name of Iran from the Safavid era, until the early 20th century.^[1][2] The idea of the Guarded Domains illustrated a feeling of territorial and political uniformity in a society where the Persian language, culture, monarchy, and Shia Islam became integral elements of the developing national identity.^[3]

The definition of the Guarded Domains' borders was almost identical to that of Eranshahr in the Sasanian-era text Letter of Tansar, as well as the description by the 14th-century geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi in his Nuzhat al-qulub.^[1]

References[]

Sources[]

• Amanat, Abbas (1997). Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1845118280.
• Amanat, Abbas (2017). Iran: A Modern History. Yale University Press. pp. 1–992. ISBN 978-0300112542.

Further reading[]

• Cronin, Stephanie, ed. (2013). Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415624336.

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