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
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
Notes
"First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2008"--title page verso
