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Isfahan and Its Palaces : statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Babaie, Sussan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conviviality, charismatic absolutism, and the Persianization of Shiʻism
  • Peripatetic kings and palaces : from Tabriz to Qazvin in the sixteenth century
  • Dwelling in paradise, or Isfahan "half the world"
  • "The abode of felicitious rule" or the Daulatkhane royal precinct
  • The spatial choreography of conviviality : the palaces of Isfahan
  • Feasting and the Perso-Shiʻi etiquette of kingship
  • The fall of Isfahan.