TY - BOOK ID - 134496910 TI - The city as anthology PY - 2021 SN - 1503627837 9781503627833 9781503613386 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Art, Safavid KW - Manuscripts, Persian KW - Anthologies KW - History KW - Iṣfahān (Iran) KW - Iran KW - Social life and customs KW - Adab. KW - Anthology. KW - Friendship. KW - Gender. KW - Isfahan. KW - Persianate. KW - Safavid. KW - Sexuality. KW - Sufism. KW - Urbanity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134496910 AB - Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan centre of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents - from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat - who anthologised their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan. ER -