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The Safavid dynastic shrine: architecture, religion and power in early modern Iran

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1848853548 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781848853546 (hbk.)
Author	Rizvi, Kishwar
Title	The Safavid dynastic shrine : architecture, religion and power in early modern Iran / [by] Kishwar Rizvi
Publisher	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011
Physical desc.	xv, [2], 269 p., [23] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.), plans, map ; 25 cm.
Series	I.B. Tauris and BIPS Persian studies series 5
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The shrine and the city -- Myth and charity -- Consolidating the Safavid past -- Aesthetics and ideology of building -- The princely aesthetic -- Marking the sacred landscape.
Person as subject	Ṣafī al-Dīn -- Shaykh -- ca. 1252-1334
Subject	Architecture, Safavid
	Shi`ah -- Iran
	Shiite shrines -- Iran
	Iran -- History -- Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736
Series Added Entry	British Institute of Persian Studies ; 5

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