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GĀZORGĀH, a village approximately 2.5 miles northeast of the city of Herat in present-day northwestern Afghanistan at 34°22′ N and…

GARDEN vi. IN PERSIAN ART The garden as an artifice has inspired other forms of art, particularly poetry, painting, and…

GARDEN  ii. ISLAMIC PERIOD Donald Wilber’s study of the Persian garden remains the most comprehensive (1979a), to which should be…