: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Sussan Babaie and Talinn Grigor
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: I.B. Tauris
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiii, 260 p., [32] pages of plates
Other Physical Details
: ill. (some color), maps
Dimensions
; 26 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction.- Achaemenid imperial architecture: performative porticoes of Persepolis/ Margaret Cool Root.- Dynastic sanctuaries and the transformation of Iranian kingship between Alexander and Islam/ Matthew P. Canepa.-The Sasanian palaces and their influence in early Islam/ Lionel D. Bier.- In the footsteps of the Sasanians: funerary architecture and Bavandid legitimacy/ Melanie Michailidis.- Sacred sites of kingship: the Maydan and mapping the spatial-spiritual vision of the empire in Safavid Iran/ Sussan Babaie.- Kingship hybridized, kingship homogenized: revivalism under the Qajar and the Pahlavi dynasties/ Talinn Grigor