Binding: Hardcover
Description: The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment - everything from royal cities and paradise gardens to hunting enclosures and fire temples - to form and contest Iranian cultural memory royal identity and sacred cosmologies over a thousand years of history. Although scholars have often noted startling continuities between the traditions of the Achaemenids and the art and architecture of medieval or Early Modern Islam the tumultuous millennium between Alexander and Islam has routinely been downplayed or omitted. The Iranian Expanse delves into this fascinating period examining royal culture and identity as something built and shaped by strategic changes to architectonic and urban spaces and the landscape of Western Asia. Canepa shows how the Seleucids Arsacids and Sasanians played a transformative role in developing a new Iranian royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam but also the wider Persianate world of the Il - Khans Safavids Timurids and Mughals.
Title: The Iranian Expanse Transforming Royal Identity Through Architecture Landscape And The Built Environment 550 Bce 642 Ce
Author(s): Canepa Matthew P.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520290037
Pages: 512 Pages, 170 B-W Images, 5 B-W Maps
Publication Date: 6/8/2018
Category: Ancient History: To C 500 Ce