Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'Ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran by Sussan Babaie
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- Pub. Date: September 2008
- 288pp
- Sales Rank: 493,927
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2008
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Format: Hardcover, 288pp
- Sales Rank: 493,927
- ISBN-13: 9780748633753
- ISBN: 0748633758
Synopsis
An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91 at the millennial threshold of the Islamic calendar (1000 A.H.), 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.
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.
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 fascinating study.
Biography
Sussan Babaie is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan
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