Cities of medieval Iran / edited by David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul

• HerausgeberIn: Durand-Guédy, David 1970-; Mottahedeh, Roy P. 1940-; Paul, Jürgen 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2020]; © 2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 495 Seiten; Illustrationen
• Notes: "Originally published as volume 16, no. 1-2 (2018) of Brill's journal Eurasian studies."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Preface / David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul -- Cities in medieval Iran : a review of recent publications / Jürgen Paul -- Jean Aubin's article "Elements for the study of urban agglomerations in medieval Iran" in context / translation and introduction by J. Paul -- Iranian cities : settlements and water management from antiquity to the Islamic period / Rocco Rante -- "From Shahristān to Medina" revisited / Donald Whitcomb -- Why Nishapur? / Richard W. Bulliet -- Inherited landscapes in Muslim Bactra / Etienne de la Vaissière -- Among saints and poets : the spiritual topography of medieval Shiraz / Denise Aigle -- The fortified landscape of Isfahan / Ali Shojaee Esfahani -- Yazd : a "good and noble city" and an "abode of worship" / Jamsheed K. Choksy -- Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol period (11th-15th Centuries) / David Durand-Guédy -- Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol invasion / Jürgen Paul -- Local elites and dynastic succession : Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol rule (sixth/twelfth to ninth/fifteenth centuries) / Daniel Zakrzewski -- Medieval Kashan : crossroads of commerce and culture / Mehrdad Amanat and Roy P. Mottahedeh -- The history of Iranian cities through their books : what Ms. Köprülü 01589 tells us about 8th/14th century Shiraz / Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi -- Medieval lexicography on Arabic and Persian terms for city and countryside / Roy P. Mottahedeh.

"Cities of Medieval Iran brings together studies in urban geography, archaeology, and history of medieval Iranian cities, spanning the Islamic period until ca. 1500, but also the pre-Islamic situation. The cities and their inhabitants take centre stage, they are not just the places where something else happened. Urban actors are given priority over external factors. The contributions take a long-term perspective and thus take the interaction between urban centres and their hinterland into account. Many contributions come from history or archaeology, but new disciplines are also methodologically integrated into the study of medieval cities, such as the arts of the book, lexicography, geomorphology, and digital instruments"--