- Associate Professor of History, University of
Delaware.
- BA and MA in Persian and Arabic language and
literature from University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
- Studied in Tehran (1976-77) and Cairo (1981-83),
and received his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from
UCLA in 1991.
- Taught at UCLA and University of Denver.
- Member The American Numismatic Society
- Rudi
Matthee
- Matthee, Rudi, Silk for Silver: Iran's Silk Trade
and the Safavid Political Economy, 1600-1730
Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999
- Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of
Iranian Studies.
- Edited Works:
- With Beth Baron, Iran and Beyond: Essays
in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, (Costa Mesa:
Ca.: Mazda, forthcoming 2000).
- "Historiography and Representation
in Safavid and Asfsharid Iran,"
special issue of Iranian Studies 31:2
(1998)
- With Nikki Keddie: "Iranian Studies
in Europe and Japan," special issue
of Iranian Studies 20 (1987; trans. into
Persian in 1992).
- Guest editor, special issue, Iranian
Studies,"Historiography and
Representation in 16th-18th-century
Iran," vol. 31 (1999), with article
in it.
- Articles
- "Courtesans, Prostitutes and Dancing
Girls: Women Entertainers in Safavid
Iran," in Rudi Matthee and Beth
Baron, eds., Iran and Beyond: Essays in
Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Costa Mesa: Ca:
Mazda, forthcoming 2000), 111-140.
- "Anti-Ottoman Concerns and Caucasian
Interests: Diplomatic Relations between
Iran and Russia under Shah `Abbas I
(1587-1629), in Michael Mazzaoui, ed.,
Safavid Iran and the World (Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Press,
forthcoming 2000).
- "Between Venice and Surat: The Role
of Gold in Late Safavid Iran,"
Modern Asian Studies 34, (2000
forthcoming), 231-265.
- "The Safavid, Afsharid and Zand
Periods," review article of the
first seven vols. of the Encyclopaedia
Iranica, forthcoming in Iranian Studies
31:3-4, (forthcoming 1999), 461-471.
- "Between Aloofness and Fascination:
Safavid Views of the West," Iranian
Studies 31:2, (1998), 219-246.
- "Iran's Ottoman Diplomacy During the
Reign of Shah Sulayman
(1077-1105/1666-94), in Kambiz Eslami,
ed., Iran and Iranian Studies: Papers in
Honor of Iraj Afshar (Princeton: Darwin
Press, 1998), 97-126.
- "Tabac: una historia social del seu
consum," Avenc. Revista d'Historia
(Barcelona) 223 (1998), 40-43.
- "From Coffee to Tea: Shifting
Patterns of Consumption in Qajar
Iran," Journal of World History 7
(1996), 199-230.
- "Unwalled Cities and Restless
Nomads: Gunpowder and Artillery in
Safavid Iran," in Charles Melville,
ed., Safavid Persia: The History and
Politics of an Islamic Society (London:
I.B. Tauris, 1996), 389-416.
- "Changing the Mintmaster: The
Mechanization of the Mint in Qajar
Iran," Itinerario 19 (1995),
109-129. Persian trans.
"Zarrabkhanah-i jadid-i
daulati," in Guftegu 15 (1376/1997),
58-81.
- "Exotic Substances: The Introduction
and Global Spread of Tobacco, Coffee,
Tea, Cocoa, and Distilled Liquor, 16-18th
Centuries," in Roy Porter and
Mikulas Teich, eds., Drugs and Narcotics
in History (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995), 24-51.
- "Anti-Ottoman Politics and Transit
Rights: The Seventeenth-Century Trade in
Silk between Safavid Iran and
Muscovy," Cahiers du Monde Russe 35
(1994),739-761.
- "Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce
and Consumption," Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the Orient
37 (1994), 1-32.
- "Administrative Stability and Change
in Late Seventeenth-Century Iran: The
Case of Shaykh `Ali Khan,"
International Journal of Middle East
Studies 26 (1994), 77-98 (trans. into
Persian in 1998).
- Abstract: Shaykh Ali Khan's
tenure as grand vizier of the
Safavid ruler Shah Sulayman
witnessed the pinnacle of his
position's historic power while
illustrating several
characteristics of government in
that period. He was a capable
administrator, ensuring a steady
flow of funds despite political
intrigues that eventually robbed
him of his position. His ability
to first get, then reattain the
post indicates the flexibility of
the governmental system. He could
not have held such power under a
strong ruler, but such a one
could have better balanced the
vizier with the developing shadow
cabinet. The
Moral Economy of Islam:
Bibliographies
- "The East India Company Trade in
Kerman Wool, 1658-1730," in Jean
Calmard, ed., Etudes Safavides: Etat et
Societe (Paris/Tehran, 1993), 343-83.
- "Transforming Dangerous Nomads into
Useful Artisans, Technicians,
Agriculturists: Education in the Reza
Shah Period," Iranian Studies 26
(1993), 313-36.
- "Anti-osmaanse allianties en
kaukasische belangen: diplomatieke
betrekkingen tussen Safavidisch Iran en
Moscovitisch Rusland
(1550-1639),"Sharqiyyat 5 (1993),
1-21.
- "The Career of Mohammad Beg, Grand
Vizier of Shah `Abbas II (r.
1642-1666)," Iranian Studies 24
(1991), 17-36.
- "Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and the
Egyptian National Debate,"
International Journal of Middle East
Studies 21 (1989), 151-69.
- "The Egyptian Opposition on the
Iranian Revolution," in Juan R.I.
Cole and Nikkie R. Keddie, eds, Shi`ism
and Social Protest, (Yale University
Press, 1986), 247-74 (also trans. into
Persian and Arabic).
- "Iran: From Divine Monarchy to
Divine Republic," Orient 23:4
(1982), 540-56.
- Reviews:
- Wilfred Buchta, Die iranische Schia und
die islamische Einheit 1979-1996 (Rudi
Matthee) International Journal of Middle
East Studies. Vol. XXXII No. 1 February
2000
- Lectures:
- Wednesday, Oct. 9 "Was Shah 'Abbas a
Mercantilist?" Rudi Matthee,
University of Delaware. Safavid History
at New York University
- Rudi Matthee, history, "Between
Aloofness and Fascination: Safavid
Iranian Views of the West," March
31, Yale University.
- Rudi Matthee, history, "Courtesans
and Prostitutes: Women Entertainers in
Safavid Iran," at fourth
International Conference of Iranian
Studies, Sept. 6-10, Paris.
- Miscellaneous:
Matthee, Rudolph P. The Politics
of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730.
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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From the Publisher: Description
Using a wide range of archival and written
sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic,
social and political networks established between
Iran, its neighbours and the world at large,
through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade.
In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource
crucial to state revenue and the only commodity
to span Iran’s entire economic activity, was
integral to aspects of late Safavid society,
including its approach to commerce, export routes
and, importantly, to the political and economic
problems which contributed to its collapse in the
early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional
scholarship, the author argues that despite the
introduction of a maritime, western-dominated
channel, Iran’s traditional land-based silk
export continued to expand right up to the end of
the seventeenth century. The book promises to
make a major theoretical contribution to the
current debates on the social and economic
history of the pre-modern world.
Chapter Contents
Introduction; 1. The Iranian silk trade; 2.
Procedures, logistics, finances; 3. Shah Abbas I
and the Safavid political economy; 4. Government
control and growing competition; 5. The
complications of privatization; 6. Conflict and
reorientation; 7. Renewed regulation and the rise
of the Russian connection, 1660s–1690s; 8.
Contraction and continuity, 1690–1730;
Conclusion.
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