Application of Financial Terms in Administrative System in Safavid Period

Research in finance and administration is one of the less concerned topics by researchers of Safavid period for some reasons, such as scarcity of historical documents and research resources. The research on financial terminology is far less than research on administrative and financial arrangements. The issue of present research is the function and economic position of financial terms of Safavid era. In this research, by using the historical method, financial terms of the Safavid era have been recognized at various levels of social and economic development. The results of the research indicate that Iran's taxing system of the Safavid era, with a hierarchical system, had controlled a vast majority of economic and income fields of the society of its own age. Such supervision was possible through the presence and activity of employees and government agents in different levels of bureaucracy. On the other hand, much of the financial terms were specific to the urban economic system. Areas such as bureaucracy, court fines, trades and guilds, military affairs, military, toll collecting, and customs were among the most important urban economic areas of that era; which financial and tax terminology, along with the amount of their tribute or other expenses, were recorded in the books of the taxing office. Two rural and nomadic communities considering their economic performance, allocated part of the financial terms to themselves that included taxes on agriculture, husbandry and military equipment.