...Camron Michael Amin Duke University Press 2006 Blurring Private and Public Lives by Design: Isfahan University of Technology, 1977 – 2005 Camron Michael Amin...

...), Ase er Layard, Henry —Austen the encountered daring country. they and their others brave of at of enemies capital; bodies the large Isfahan, of threatened head Persia. they the of Sometimes at history horsemen. plains the the in into part descend important would an chiefs played Their times different...

... Christen-   inviting political and economic environment. dom largely within its own civilizational frame- of Isfahan, ‘Abbas’s splendid new capital, became work or as part of a universal theater. From the   Comparative a magnet...

... with him. That the welcome was this warm is made plausible of Isfahan’s leading cleric, Aqa Najafi). These two became by Fursat Shirazi’s contemporary remarks, quoted above. aware of Furughi’s...

...: it was a viable, subjects.”6 adaptable institution. For his subjects, young Nasir al- It is in this light that the shah sent a public proc- Din Shah symbolized not only the realm over which lamation to Isfahan declaring that, “we consider the he reigned but also its people, its property and secu- Ruyets...

... homeland to be not Tabr z, but Isfahan. This practice of adopting a homeland different from one s birthplace was common; when discussing the lives of poets, early mod- ern tazkira authors frequently distinguish be- tween a person s vat.an, original homeland, and the place with which their literary...

...Figure 1. Ghazaleh Hedayat, from the series My Isfahan (2002). C-print analogue photography, 30 × 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist. ...

... not just to Iran in its own time but even more nar- rowly to Isfahan and was only much later imagined as a turning point in Persian literary history.8 In identifying the world of Persian literature with a single city, Bahar imposes a teleology wherein Per- sian literature from everywhere else was relevant...

... and then proceeded to invade the capital city of Isfahan in 1722.5 The fall of Isfahan presaged the career of Nadir Quli, a notable Afshari tribesman native to northern Khurasan who initially rose to fame serv- ing the Safavid prince Tahmasp II, for which he earned the epithet Tahmasp Quli, or Slave of Tahmasp...

... . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2003 . Martin Vanessa . The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Persia . London : I. B. Tauris , 2005 . Matthee Rudi . Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan . London : I. B. Tauris...

... Berberian gave her paper “Nowhere a Stranger: Mahdavi, an anthropologist among historians Cosmopolitanism and the Sceriman Family be- in this collection, closes this special section with tween Isfahan and Venice,” chronicling the cir- an ethnographic study that chronicles the mi- culation of an Iranian...

... : University of California Press , 1997 . Babaie Sussan . Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism, and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2008 . ———. “Sacred Sites of Kingship: The Maydan and Mapping the Spatial-Spiritual...

... including Babis (later Azalis) and Baha’is;24 re- of 85,000–90,000, Isfahan 60,000–80,000,and ligious minorities included Sunni Muslims, Ar- Mashhad 50,000–70,000; most other cities and menian and Nestorian Christians, Jews, and towns are estimated to have had...

..., 1991); Gilbert Sinoué, Avicenne ou la route 10. Wagner, Occidentalism in Novels, 200. d’Ispahan (Avicenna or the Road to Isfahan) (Paris: 8. Said, Orientalism, 3, 2. 11. Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism...

.... Press, 2005) and Persia in Crisis: The Decline of the Safavids and the Fall of Isfahan (I. B. Tauris, forth- Nile Green is a professor of South Asian history at coming in 2011) and coeditor of Iran...

... ulama Ifhn Isfahan (Isfahan: 8...

... years and in Tabriz, Shiraz, Isfahan, and Tehran in 1891. became closely associated with Sultan Abdül­ Edward Browne, a British orientalist and a firm hamid II. One positive outcome of this friend- supporter of the Iranian constitutional move- ship...

... arose. Iranian intelligence reports Department [IETD] line from the Ottoman frontier to arriving in Tehran from the south alarmed the Shah. Tehran, and then southward to Isfahan, Shiraz and Thomson reported to London: Bushihr. The IETD also laid...