Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi`ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran

by Sussan Babaie

Book Overview

This 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 immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91, transformed Isfahan from a provincial, medieval, and largely Sunni city into an urban-centered representation of the first Imami Shi'i empire in the history of Islam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474437192
• ISBN13: 9781474437196
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher