Isfahan and its Palaces : : Statecraft, Shi`ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran / / Sussan Babaie.
Winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award 2009This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501–1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi‘i practice of kingship.An imm...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art : ESIA
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 60 B/W illustrations 24 colour illustrations 24 colour and 60 b+w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on the Transliteration System
- Safavid Dynastic Chart
- Timeline of Safavid Capital Cities and Major Structures
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Conviviality, Charismatic Absolutism, and the Persianization of Shi'ism
- CHAPTER 2 Peripatetic Kings and Palaces: From Tabriz to Qazvin in the Sixteenth Century
- CHAPTER 3 Dwelling in Paradise, or Isfahan “Half the World”
- CHAPTER 4 “The Abode of Felicitous Rule” or the Daulatkhane Royal Precinct
- CHAPTER 5 The Spatial Choreography of Conviviality: the Palaces of Isfahan
- CHAPTER 6 Feasting and the Perso-Shi'i Etiquette of Kingship
- CHAPTER 7 Epilogue: The Fall of Isfahan
- Select Bibliography
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Index