Guarded Domains of Iran

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]

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

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
  1. Amanat 1997, p. 13.
  2. Amanat 2017, p. 443.
  3. Amanat 1997, p. 15.

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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