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

Main entry:

Babaie, Sussan.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 302 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Islamic art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.
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 felicitious rule" or the Daulatkhane royal precinct -- The spatial choreography of conviviality : the palaces of Isfahan -- Feasting and the Perso-Shiʻi etiquette of kingship -- The fall of Isfahan.

Summary:

"An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91 at the millennial threshold of the Islamic calendar (1000 A.H.), 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.This 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.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 fascinating study." http://books.google.com/books?id=jVfXAAAAMAAJ.

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ISBN:

9780748633753 (hbk.)
0748633758 (hbk.)
9781474437196 (paperback)
1474437192 (paperback)

Subject:

Safawiden Dynastie : 1501-1722
Safawiden.
Architecture, Safavid Iran Iṣfahān.
Architecture séfévide Iran Ispahan.
Architecture, Safavid.
Architektur
Hofzeremoniell
Architecture, Safavid Iran Isfahan.
Islamic architecture Iran Isfahan.
Arkitektur Iran 1501-1722.
Iṣfahān (Iran) History.
Iran Iṣfahān.
Isfahan

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258409
Call No.: BIB 189179
Status: Available

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