TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Illustrations ix
Note on Transliteration xi
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Part I: Safavid Period
Chapter 1: General Overview: Iran between 1500 and 1900 17
Chapter 2: Wine in Safavid Iran I: Between Excess and Abstention 37
Chapter 3: Wine in Safavid Iran II: Ambivalence and Prohibition 69
Chapter 4: Opium in Safavid Iran: The Assimilated Drug 97
Chapter 5: Tobacco in Safavid Iran: Pleasure and Proscription 117
Chapter 6: Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and Consumption 144
Part II: Qajar Period
Chapter 7: Wine in Qajar Iran: From Flouting the Religious Law to Flaunting Unbelief 177
Chapter 8: Opium and Tobacco in Qajar Iran: From Pleasure to Crash Crop and Emblem of the Nation 207
Chapter 9: From Coffee to Tea: Shifting Patterns of Consumption in Qajar Iran 237
Chapter 10: Drinking Tea in the Qahvah-khanah: The Politics of Consumption in Qajar Iran 267
Conclusion 293
Bibliography 305
Index 335
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