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Isfahan and its Palaces - Statecraft, Shi`Ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (Paperback)
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Isfahan and its Palaces - Statecraft, Shi`Ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
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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. An immense building campaign,
initiated in 1590-91, 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. 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 study of palatial architecture and urban environments of
Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin. Babaie
argues that since the Safavid claim presumed the inheritance both
of the charisma of the Shi'i Imams and of the aura of royal
splendor integral to ancient Persian notions of kingship, a
ceremonial regime was gradually devised in which access and
proximity to the shah assumed the contours of an institutionalized
form of feasting. Talar-palaces, a new typology in Islamic palatial
designs, and the urban-spatial articulation of access and proximity
are the architectural anchors of this argument. Cast in the
comparative light of urban spaces and palace complexes elsewhere
and earlier--in the Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms as well as
in the early modern European capitals--Safavid Isfahan emerges as
the epitome of a new architectural-urban paradigm in the early
modern age.
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