ARCHITECTURE vi. Safavid to Qajar Periods Iranian architecture from the 16th to the 19th centuries is, not surprisingly, dominated by…

ARCHAEOLOGY vi. Islamic Iran From the outset Islamic archaeology in Iran was overshadowed by the numerous and splendid sites of…

AŠTARJĀN (OŠTORJĀN), name of a subdistrict (dehestān) and its chief village, lying southwest of Isfahan on the road connecting this…

ARDESTĀN, a town of central Iran between Kāšān and Nāʾīn, lying on the very border of the Dašt-e Kavīr. i….

ABARQŪH (or ABARQŪYA), a town in northern Fārs; it was important in medieval times, but, being off the main routes,…