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

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

Babaie, Sussan

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Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

Literary CriticismIslamGeneral Architecture

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ISBN10: 1474437192
ISBN13: 9781474437196
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Apr 5 2018
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

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. The historical process of Shi'ification of Safavid Iran and the deployment of the arts in situating the shifts in the politico-religious agenda of the imperial household informs Sussan Babaie's study of palatial architecture and urban environments of Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin.

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