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Persian kingship and architecture: strategies of power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1848857519 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781848857513 (hbk.)
Title	Persian kingship and architecture : strategies of power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis / edited by Sussan Babaie and Talinn Grigor
Publisher	London : I.B. Tauris, 2015
Physical desc.	xxiii, 260 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Achaemenid imperial architecture: performative porticoes of Persepolis / Margaret Cool Root -- Dynastic sanctuaries and the transformation of Iranian kingship between Alexander and Islam / Matthew P. Canepa -- The Sasanian palaces and their influence in early Islam / Lionel D. Bier -- In the footsteps of the Sasanians: funerary architecture and Bavandid legitimacy / Melanie Michailidis -- Sacred sites of kingship: the Maydan and mapping the spatial-spiritual vision of the empire in Safavid Iran / Sussan Babaie -- Kingship hybridized, kingship homogenized: revivalism under the Qajar and the Pahlavi dynasties / Talinn Grigor.
Subject	Architecture -- Iran -- History
	Architecture -- Political aspects -- Iran -- History
	Art -- Political aspects -- Iran -- History
	Nationalism and architecture -- Iran
	Kings and rulers -- Art patronage
	Symbolism in architecture -- Iran
	Iran -- Buildings, structures, etc
Added name(s)	Babaie, Sussan
Added name(s)	Grigor, Talinn 1972-

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
10012977	720.955 BAB	RL		. *, Permanent Loan .