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

1. Verfasser: Babaie, Sussan , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 302 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plates ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic art
ISBN: 9781474437196
1474437192
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Parallelausgabe: Babaie, Sussan., Isfahan and its palaces. (Online version:)
Babaie, Sussan., Isfahan and its palaces. (Online version:)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.