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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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<">Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingship and Architecture argues, the institution of kingship has historically played a pivotal role in articulating the abstract notion of 'Iran' since antiquity. These ideas surrounding kingship and nation have, in turn, served as a unifying cultural force despite shifting political and religious allegiances. Through analyses of palaces, mausolea, art, architectural decoration and urban design the authors show how architecture was appropriated by different rulers as an integral part of their strategies of legitimising power. They refer to a variety of examples, from the monuments of Persepolis under the Achamenids, the Sassanian palaces at Kish, the Safavid public squares of Isfahan, the Qajar palaces at Shiraz and to the modernisation and urban agendas of the Pahlavis. Drawing on archaeology, ancient, medieval, early and modern architectural history, both Islamic and secular, this book is indispensable for all those interested in Iranian studies and visual culture.<">--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Architecture --- Political aspects --- Iran --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government.

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rulers [people] --- History of Asia --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Achaemenid --- symbolism [artistic concept] --- Pahlevi --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- Iran

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Islamic World dynastic styles and periods --- fine arts --- Islamic civilization --- Arts and society. --- Islam --- History of civilization --- Art --- Arts and society --- Islamic civilization. --- Islamic Empire. --- fine arts [discipline] --- cultuurgeschiedenis