Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Author:   Sussan Babaie
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9780748633753


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 July 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran


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Author:   Sussan Babaie
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.878kg
ISBN:  

9780748633753


ISBN 10:   0748633758
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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"1. Introduction: Conviviality, Charismatic Absolutism, and the Persianizing of Shi'ism; 2. Peripatetic Kings and Palaces: From Tabriz to Qazvin in the Sixteenth Century; 3. Dwelling in Paradise, or Isfahan ""Half the World""; 4. Architectural (Re)Persianization of Muslim Kingship: The Daulatkhane (The Abode of Felicity) Royal Precinct; 5. Inventing the Spatial Choreography of Feasting: the Talar Palaces of Isfahan; 6. Feasting and the Perso-Shi'i Etiquette of Kingship; 7. Safavid Dynastic Chart; 8. A Buildings' Chart; Bibliography."

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... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the official variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts ... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the official variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran.


"... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the ""official"" variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts ... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the ""official"" variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran."


... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the official variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran. -- John Renard Religion and the Arts ... provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the official variety of Perso-Iranian Islam. Course on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran.


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Sussan Babaie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michgan. She is co-editor of Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (I.B. Tauris, 2004) and Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989).

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