Title Isfahan and Its Palaces.

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Description	1 online resource (345 pages).
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Series	Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
	Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
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Subject	Architecture, Safavid -- Iran -- Iṛfahān.
	Architecture, Safavid.
	Iran.
	Shiites -- Iran -- Iṛfahān.
	Shiites.
	Iṛfahān (Iran) -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Babaie, Sussan. Isfahan and Its Palaces. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2018 9781474437196
ISBN	9780748633760
	0748633766
	1474437192
	9781474437196