Arbitrary Despotism and Taxation in Iran: Analysing an Iranalogist’s standpoint
نویسندگان
1 St Antony’s College; Member, the Faulty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
doi
10.48308/jep.2025.106257چکیده
Since time immemorial Iran has been ruled by a system of arbitrary despotism which, inevitably, has affected all aspects of state and society. A major example was the land tax which normally fleeced the peasants by extracting a heavy rent from them. Willem Floor’s is a substantive study of this system and its consequences for the society. He is a distinguished Iranologist .This article is an investigation in this Regard
