Arbitrary Despotism and Taxation in Iran: Analysing an Iranalogist’s standpoint

Document Type : Original Article

Author

St Antony’s College; Member, the Faulty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Abstract

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

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Volume 6, Issue 2
2025
Pages 123-144
  • Receive Date: 26 September 2025
  • Accept Date: 26 September 2025
  • First Publish Date: 26 September 2025
  • Publish Date: 01 October 2025