Oriental Despotism
The Case of Qajar Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8966552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ervand Abrahamian (Baruch College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-31 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800032761 |
| OpenAlex | W2097026926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 18 |
As R. H. Tawney once remarked, ‘the past reveals to the presenr what the present is capable of seeing’. Present political scientists who are interested in comparing past power structures have been the first observers to reveral methodically the fundaqmental differences between feudalism and oriental despotism. They have shown how the feudal monarchies of Europe, in their ideal form, were restricted by hereditary and independent aristocrats, by institutions representing the estates of the real, and with civil societies with corporate rights, immunities, and inalienable privileges. And they have shown how despots in the East, in their ideal form, ruled through patrimonial bureaucracies, did not contend with estate institutions, could withdraw concessions granted previously, and were unhampered by independent intermediaries between themselves and their subjects
Ancient history · Bureaucracy · Estate · Feudalism · Ideal (ethics · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
North Africa from the First World War
Popular Entertainment, Media and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Iran
Iranian Relations With Great Britain and British India, 1798–1921
Iranian Foreign Policy, 1921–1979
Iranian Relations With Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921
The Pahlavī Autocracy
Africa south of the Sahara from the First World War
Religious Forces in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Iran
Iran Under the Later Qājārs, 1848–1922
The Cambridge History of Iran
Printing, the Press and Literature in Modern Iran
Prosopography in translation history
The Middle East in the eighteenth century —an ‘Islamic society in decline
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
Seminaries of the Orient
Coming face to face with bloody reality
Arbitrary rule
The Asiatic mode of production and the formative Turkic and Iranian states in modern times
Factionalism in Iran
Environment and Culture
Mode of Production in Medieval Iran
The Concept of Dependent Development as a Key to the Political Economy of Qajar Iran (1800–1925)
All Rulers are Brothers”
The Patrimonial Structure of Iranian Bureaucracy in The Late Nineteenth Century
A Note on Babi and Baha'i Numbers in Iran
The Structural Foundations of the National Minority Problem in Revolutionary Iran
Qajar Ambitions in the Great Game
Tribalism as a Socioeconomic Formation in Iranian History
The American Analysis of Iranian Politics
The Creation of the Food Administration in Iran
Household Networks and Rural Integration in Qajar Kirman
Lord Curzon and E. G. Browne Confront the ‘Persian Question’
The Aridisolatic Society
The Ideology and Praxis of Shi'ism in the Iranian Revolution
The Politics of Gift Exchange in Early Qajar Iran, 1785-1834
The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
The uniqueness of the East
Landlord and peasant in Persia
Studies in the economic history of the Middle East
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. By R. H. Tawney. (New York
Max Weber
Religion and State in Iran 1785–1906
“Preface” to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Persia and the Persian Question
Kūch u Balūch and Ichthyophagi
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
The Author Replies
A History of Persia
Modernization and Reform From Above
The Uses of Comparative Sociology
The Concept of Ideology
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Power, Civil Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |