Isfahan and its palaces : statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran /: statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sussan Babaie.
• Authors: Babaie, Sussan
• 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.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 720.95595; Architecture, Safavid -- Iran -- Iṣfahān; Shiites -- Iran -- Iṣfahān; Architecture, Safavid; Shiites; Iṣfahān (Iran) -- History; Iran -- Iṣfahān; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748633760
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.