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

ISBN-13: 9781474437196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Sussan Babaie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Conviviality, Charismatic Absolutism, and the Persianizing of Shi‘ism; 2. Peripatetic Kings and Palaces: From Tabriz to Qazvin in the Sixteenth Century; 3. Dwelling in Paradise, or Isfahan “Half the World”; 4. Architectural (Re)Persianization of Muslim Kingship: The Daulatkhane (The Abode of Felicity) Royal Precinct; 5. Inventing the Spatial Choreography of Feasting: the Talar Palaces of Isfahan; 6. Feasting and the Perso-Shi‘i Etiquette of Kingship; 7. Safavid Dynastic Chart; 8. A Buildings’ Chart; Bibliography.