Khosro Khajeh Nouri and Neda Honarmandi have translated the book and Amir Kabir Publishing House has brought it out in 727 pages, ISNA reported. The 10th volume in the series “The Idea of Iran,” the ...

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of these sources has never been published before; four ...

Installation view, Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Houston Museum of ...

Sussan Babaie is Reader in the history of Iranian and Islamic art and architecture at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Sussan Babaie is Reader in the history of Iranian and ...

View An illustrated and illuminated folio from a manuscript of Husayn Va’iz al-Kashifi’s Akhlaq-i Muhsini: Ya'qub ibn Layth standing on the roof in full armour, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid By Safavid ...

From the 14th to the 16th century, Iran had witnessed growth and affluence under the Timurid and Safavid dynasties. During this period, many mosques, palaces and pavilions were commissioned and ...