Cossack Brigade - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Cossack Brigade - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Andreeva, Elena

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061311
Doc. NO	:	ALei1708
Main Entry	:	Andreeva, Elena
Title & Author	:	Cossack Brigade - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Andreeva, Elena
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,573 words)
Abstract	:	The Cossack Brigade in Iran was at once a reflection and a consequence of the internal weakness of the Qājār rulers (1797–1925) who were dominated by Russia and Great Britain. In the first half of the nineteenth century, two devastating wars lost to Russia (1804–13 and 1826–8) clearly exposed the ineptitude of the Iranian military. Attempts to modernise the army on European models produced no tangible results. Naṣir al-Dīn Shāh (r. 1848–96), who had been seeking a way to reorganise the Iranian army, was greatly
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1708.pdf