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Isfahan and its palaces: statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran

Isfahan and its palaces: statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran
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ISBN 1474437192 (pbk.)
9781474437196 (pbk.)
Author Babaie, Sussan
Title Isfahan and its palaces : statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran / Sussan Babaie
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Physical desc. xvii, 302 pages ; illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Series Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Note Paperback edition 2018.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.
Contents Introduction: Conviviality, charismatic absolutism, and the Persianization of Shiʻism -- Peripatetic kings and palaces: from Tabriz to Qazvin in the sixteenth century -- Dwelling in paradise, or Isfahan 'half the world' -- 'The abode of felicitous rule' or the Daulatkhane royal precinct -- The spatial choreography of conviviality: the palaces of Isfahan -- Feasting and the Perso-Shiʻi etiquette of kingship -- Epilogue: The fall of Isfahan.
Subject Architecture, Safavid -- Iran -- Iṣfahān
Architecture -- Iran -- History
Islamic architecture -- Iran -- Isfahān
Palaces -- Iran -- Isfahān
Isf̣ahan̄ (Iran) -- History
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