TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthee,Rudi
TI  - The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 
SN  - 9781400832606
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - Drug utilization
KW  - Stimulants
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abrah
KW  - Abu Bakr
KW  - Adamiyat, Firaydun
KW  - Agha Parvanah
KW  - Agriculture et maison rustique
KW  - Alamut
KW  - Anis al-Dawlah
KW  - Azerbaijan
KW  - Baghdad
KW  - Banyans
KW  - Batavia
KW  - Bengal, and tea supply
KW  - Bihbahan, and opium cultivation
KW  - Buckingham, James
KW  - Burujird
KW  - Bushihr
KW  - Cairo
KW  - Canton
KW  - Carmelites
KW  - Chahar Bagh
KW  - Coffeehouses
KW  - Cruydeboeck
KW  - Daghistan
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Dawraq
KW  - Early modern period
KW  - Edict of Sincere Repentance
KW  - Erzurum
KW  - Eunuchs
KW  - Fars
KW  - Fryer, John, on coffee
KW  - Genoa
KW  - Ghaznavids
KW  - Ghulams
KW  - Hajji Muhammad
KW  - Herat
KW  - Himam al-thawaqib
KW  - Ihtisham al-Saltanah
KW  - Indian Ocean
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Jews
KW  - Kadizadeli movement
KW  - Kalantar
KW  - Kamal al-Din
KW  - Karun River
KW  - Khurasan
KW  - Kirmanshah
KW  - Lisbon
KW  - Mahmud Ghalzai
KW  - Malabar
KW  - Mikhri Khan
KW  - Nahavand
KW  - Opium
KW  - Ossetians
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Note on Transliteration --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I. Safavid Period --; CHAPTER 1. General Overview: Iran between 1500 and 1900 --; CHAPTER 2. Wine in Safavid Iran I: Between Excess and Abstention --; CHAPTER 3. Wine in Safavid Iran II: Ambivalence and Prohibition --; CHAPTER 4. Opium in the Safavid Iran: The Assimilated Drug --; CHAPTER 5. Tobacco in Safavid Iran: Pleasure and Proscription --; CHAPTER 6. Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and Consumption --; PART II. Qajar Period --; CHAPTER 7. Wine in Qajar Iran: From Flouting the Religious Law to Flaunting Unbelief --; CHAPTER 8. Opium and Tobacco in Qajar Iran: From Pleasure to Crash Crop and Emblem of the Nation --; CHAPTER 9. From Coffee to Tea: Shifting Patterns of Consumption in Qajar Iran --; CHAPTER 10. Drinking Tea in the Qahvah-khanah: The Politics of Consumption in Qajar Iran --; CONCLUSION --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphaël du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a "kick," got them into a good mood. By tracing their historical trajectory and the role they played in early modern Iranian society (1500-1900), Rudi Matthee takes a major step in extending contemporary debates on the role of drugs and stimulants in shaping the modern West.At once panoramic and richly detailed, The Pursuit of Pleasure examines both the intoxicants known since ancient times--wine and opiates--and the stimulants introduced later--tobacco, coffee, and tea--from multiple angles. It brings together production, commerce, and consumption to reveal the forces behind the spread and popularity of these consumables, showing how Iranians adapted them to their own needs and tastes and integrated them into their everyday lives.Matthee further employs psychoactive substances as a portal for a set of broader issues in Iranian history--most notably, the tension between religious and secular leadership. Faced with reality, Iran's Shi`i ulama turned a blind eye to drug use as long as it stayed indoors and did not threaten the social order. Much of this flexibility remains visible underneath the uncompromising exterior of the current Islamic Republic
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400832606?locatt=mode:legacy
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