Lecture at Islamic Art Circle, SOAS, London

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Talk titled: "An Architectural Accounting Record from Shiraz, 1339"

Abstract: This paper draws on a neglected report of the construction of a mansion (bala-qasr) in Shiraz from the Risala-yi falakiyya, a mid-fourteenth-century accounting manual, which offers a rare glimpse of the building process in pre-modern Islam. Reading this document in a broader context, the paper hopes to shed new light on the social and architectural history of medieval Shiraz.
Period7 Dec 2022
Held atSOAS University of London, United Kingdom