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Middle East --- Iran --- Isfahan --- Moyen-Orient --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Travel. --- Iran. --- Isfahan. --- Middle East. --- Perzsia --- Description and travel. --- útleírás
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Church architecture --- Architecture, Armenia --- -Church architecture --- -Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Avalap'rkich' Vank' (Julfa, Isfahan, Iran) --- -Avalap'rkich' Vank' (Julfa, Isfahan, Iran) --- Church architecture - Iran - Julfa (Isfahan) --- Architecture, Armenia - Iran - Julfa (Isfahan)
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Renowned as great centres of learning, the cities of Baghdad and Isfahan were at the heart of the Islamic 'age of science'. Their distinct cultural voices inspired a unique historical dialogue, which finds new expression in Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science, the story of how knowledge was transmitted and transformed within Islamic lands, and then spread across the globe. Charting the history of Baghdad and Isfahan from 750 to 1750, Elaheh Kheirandish draws on the voices of court astronomers, mathematicians, scientists, mystics, jurists, statesmen and Arabic and Persian translators and scholars. Telling the story of the rise of Baghdad and the decline of Isfahan, as capital cities and as centres of intellectual thought, this unique book addresses Islamic culture's extensive and lasting contribution to the history of science. Kheirandish bases her narrative on a unique medieval manuscript and other historical sources and the result is more than a thousand-year "tale of two cities"-it is a city by city, and century by century, look at what it took to change the world. In a feat of travelogue and time travel, Kheirandish creates parallel stories with modern and historical characters, crossing cities worldwide, and capturing changes through time.
Islam and science --- Islam and science. --- History --- To 1500. --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Baghdad (Iraq) --- Iran --- Iraq --- History.
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A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West’s fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ‘orientalism’ and colonialism, and for historians.
Adventure and adventurers --- Pyne, John Compton --- Travel. --- Iran --- Description and travel. --- Adventurers --- Voyages and travels --- Description and travel --- History --- Isfahan --- Persian language
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Armenian Church --- History --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Church history --- 281.6 --- Armeense Kerk --- 281.6 Armeense Kerk --- Armenian Church. --- History. --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Church history. --- Eṣfahān --- Eṣfahān (Iran) --- Aspadana (Iran) --- شهردارى اصفهان (Iran) --- Shahrdārī-i Iṣfahān (Iran) --- اصفهان (Iran) --- Eṣfehān (Iran) --- Iṣfahān (Iran) - Church history
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Winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award 2009This 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.Babaie argues that since the Safavid claim presumed the inheritance both of the charisma of the Shi‘i Imams and of the aura of royal splendor integral to ancient Persian notions of kingship, a ceremonial regime was gradually devised in which access and proximity to the shah assumed the contours of an institutionalized form of feasting. Talar-palaces, a new typology in Islamic palatial designs, and the urban-spatial articulation of access and proximity are the architectural anchors of this argument. Cast in the comparative light of urban spaces and palace complexes elsewhere and earlier—in the Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms as well as in the early modern European capitals—Safavid Isfahan emerges as the epitome of a new architectural-urban paradigm in the early modern age.
Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Eṣfahān --- Eṣfahān (Iran) --- Aspadana (Iran) --- شهردارى اصفهان (Iran) --- Shahrdārī-i Iṣfahān (Iran) --- اصفهان (Iran) --- Eṣfehān (Iran) --- History. --- Architecture, Safavid --- Architecture, Safavid. --- Shiites --- Shiites. --- Iran --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious. --- Shia Muslims --- Shiah Muslims --- Shiahs --- Shias --- Shiite Muslims --- Muslims --- Safavid architecture --- Architecture --- Islamic architecture
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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world-both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires-astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.
Merchants --- Businesspeople --- History --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Commerce --- جلفا (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- New-Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Neu-Djoulfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Jolfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Nor Jugha (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Novai︠a︡ Dzhulʹfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- E-books --- History of Europe --- History of Asia --- anno 1500-1799 --- Isfahan --- Merchants - Armenia - History. --- Merchants - Armenia - History - Sources --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) - Commerce - History - Sources --- acapulco. --- amsterdam. --- armenia. --- armenian merchants. --- asian empires. --- commercial settlements. --- eurasian. --- european expansion. --- global trade. --- historical. --- history of commerce. --- imperial network. --- indian ocean. --- iran. --- isfahan. --- london. --- long distance trade. --- manila. --- mediterranean sea. --- mercantile communities. --- merchant life. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- new julfa. --- nonfiction. --- persian empire. --- silk merchants. --- trade networks. --- trading outposts. --- world history.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian --- Illustration of books --- Iṣfahān (Iran) in art --- Iṣfahān (Iran) in art --- Minorities in art --- Minorities in the arts --- Book illustration --- Art --- Books --- Decoration and ornament --- Pictures --- Illuminated manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Illuminated --- Miniatures (Illumination of books and manuscripts) --- Ornamental alphabets --- Alphabets --- Initials --- Paleography --- Scriptoria --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Persian --- Iranian illumination of books and manuscripts --- Persian illumination of books and manuscripts
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