Landlord and Peasant in Persia (Hardcover, Revised ed)

Part 1: Origins - the Arab conquest; revenue administration; the Iqta system and the Sejuqs; the Mongols and the break with tradition; the growth of absolutism - the Safavids; the Afsharid interlude - the rise of the Qajars; the second half of the 19th century - the eve of reform. Part 2: the constitution - the rise of Riza Shah; the civil code; irrigation; Ouqaf; Khaliseh; the large landed proprietors; peasant proprietors and other small owners; tribal areas; the crop-sharing peasant - security of tenure; the division of the crop - rents; personal servitudes and dues; the payment of local officials; flocks and pastures; the problems of the peasant - agricultural methods - debt - standard of living; the future. Appendix: the civil code - on contracts for agricultural and harvesting purposes.