نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی - پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
In the early years of Islamic conquest the port city of Basra was developed to organize and deploy troops to the eastern expanses of the Caliphate. Its special location and status later translated into economic profits. As the Abbasid Caliphate collapsed (1219 AD) the Mesopotamia and Basra fell under Iranian domination and the rise of the Safavids in Iran all but intensified the rivalry to exert control over this strategic port with the Ottomans. On the one hand the nomads of Khuzestan and Basra played a decisive role in this rivalry, and on the other hand, the onset of political and economic rivalries of European powers in the Persian Gulf drove the British and Portuguese into Irano-Ottoman rivalry for controlling Basra. In the midst of the two powers struggle the All-e- Afrasiyab (of Basra Turkic nomads) took advantage of the domestic problems of Iran and the Ottoman Empire to gain control over Basra and rule it for seventy years and reap its economic benefits. This article has been informed by domestic and foreign sources and shows how this apparently independent dynasty could, in the midst of rivalry between Iran and the Ottoman Empire, assume and play a political and economic role in this period.
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