TY - BOOK AU - Babaie,Sussan TI - Isfahan and its palaces: statecraft, Shi'ism and the architecture of conviviality in early modern Iran T2 - Edinburgh Studies in Islamic art SN - 9780748633753 (hbk.) AV - NA1487.I8 B33 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Architecture, Safavid KW - Iran KW - Isfahān KW - Isfahān (Iran) KW - History N1 - Includes bibliography (p. [274]-293) and index; 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 ER -