Document Type : .

Author

• hadi bayati

3- Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Theology, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

Abstract

The issue of money and related issues is one of the issues that has always been the concern of rulers. . In the meantime, due to the competition and conflicts of the Safavid and Ottoman governments, each of them used special monetary policies to advance their goals and hit the opposite government. During this period, the gold and silver required for minting coins in Iran were mostly supplied from outside the country due to the lack of mineral resources, and one of the ways to enter the country was through the territory of the Ottoman Empire. Based on this, the present research with a descriptive-analytical method tries to investigate the effect and consequences of monetary policies in the relations of the Safavid and Ottoman governments, relying on gold and silver ornaments. The results of the research indicate that the Ottoman government prevented gold and silver from entering Iran in certain periods of history in order to advance its political goals and economic sanctions against the Safavid government. In contrast, the Safavid government adopted two different policies to overcome the Ottoman trade embargoes; One is the supply of muskets from inside Iran and the other is the supply of muskets from outside Iran. In addition, the use of these monetary policies had many consequences for both governments, including the change of Iran's trade routes from the Ottoman territory, the lack of gold and silver ornaments in Iran, and the deprivation of the Ottoman government from the income of the Hajj pilgrimage..

Keywords

• Monetary policy
• gold
• silver
• Safavid
• Ottoman