Half the world
Subtitle: the social architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722
By: Stephen P. Blake.
Series: Islamic art and architecture series ;; no. 9; Islamic art and arcthitecture series ;; v. 9.
Publisher: Mazda Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Architecture and society -- Iran -- Iṣfahān; Architecture, Islamic -- Iran -- Iṣfahān; Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries
Description: "Social architecture is a theoretical approach that takes the city itself as a text. The built environment reflects the social system and the ways in which that system is expressed, reproduced, and experienced. The defining architectural element of Safavid Isfahan was the Maidan-i Naqsh-i Jahan, the great piazza around which Shah 'Abbas built the nucleus of his new capital.".

"This volume offers significant contributions in three separate fields: (1) it is the first comprehensive study of Isfahan, one of the great cities of early modern Eurasia (2) it contributes a significant chapter to our understanding of Iran under the Safavids, 1500-1722 and (3) it adds a great deal to the literature on cities in the Middle East and to the "Islamic city" model."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.