Timeline of Isfahan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Isfahan, Iran.

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Prior to 16th century

  • 771 - Friday Mosque established in Yahudiyya (approximate date).[1]
  • 1051 - Isfahan besieged by Seljuk forces of Tughril;[2] city becomes capital of the Seljuk Empire.[3]
  • 1070 - Nezamiyeh Madrasa built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1107 - Chihil Dukhtaran (minaret) erected.[1]
  • 1194 - Khwarazmian Ala ad-Din Tekish in power.[4]
  • 1226 - City sacked by Mongol forces.[2]
  • 1228 - City besieged by Mongol forces again.[2][5]
  • 1240/1241 - Isfahan taken by Mongol forces.[5][4]
  • 1325 - Emamzadeh Jafar (tomb/shrine) built.[1]
  • 1341/1342 - Shaikh Abu Esḥāq Inju becomes governor of Isfahan.[2]
  • 1356 - Amir Mobārez-al-Din Mo-ḥammad Moẓaffari becomes governor of Isfahan.[2]
  • 1387 - Isfahan besieged by forces of Timur.[2][6]

16th-19th centuries

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Isfahan". Oxford Art Online. (Subscription required (help)). Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 8 February 2017
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kamaly 2012.
  3. ↑ John L. Esposito (2003). Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-975726-8.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bosworth 2007.
  5. 1 2 Woods 1977.
  6. ↑ "Iran". Political Chronology of the Middle East. Europa Publications. 2003. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-1-135-35673-6.
  7. ↑ Haneda 2012.
  8. 1 2 Macmillan 2004.
  9. ↑ BBC News. "Iran Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  10. ↑ Britannica 1910.
  11. ↑ Hooshang Amirahmadi (2012). Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796-1936. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85772-258-4.
  12. ↑ Ghada Talhami (2013). Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6858-8.
  13. ↑ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust. Ispahan
  14. 1 2 3 4 Borjian 2012.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Zanjani 2006.
  16. 1 2 "Iran". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  17. ↑ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
  18. ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published prior to 20th century
  • Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Isfahan", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, OCLC 8979039
Published in the 20th century
  • "Ispahan", Jewish Encyclopedia, 6, New York, 1904
  • Guy Le Strange (1905). "Jibal: (Isfahan)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press.
  • "Isfahan", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • Huart (1927). "Iṣfahān". In M.T. Houtsma; et al. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill.
  • C. A. Storey (1936). "History of Persia: Isfahan". Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey. 1. London: Luzac & Company. OCLC 1312518.
  • Wilfred Blunt (1966). Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. OCLC 711992.
  • Renata Holod, ed. (1974), Studies on Isfahan, Iranian Studies, OCLC 4762427
  • John E. Woods (1977). "Note on the Mongol Capture of Iṣfahān". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 36. JSTOR 544126.
  • W. Barthold (1984). "Isfahan, Kashan, and Qum". An Historical Geography of Iran. Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 169–179. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
  • Eckart Ehlers. "Capitals and spatial organization in Iran: Esfahân, Shirâz, Tehran," in Chahryar Adle and Bernard Hourcade, eds., Téhéran: Capitale bicentenaire, (Paris and Teheran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1992), pp. 155–172.
  • Andrew Petersen (1996). "Isfahan". Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-61365-6.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Esfahan", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 9781884964039
  • Stephen P. Blake. Half the World: A Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (Costa Mesa, Cal.: Mazda, 1999)
  • Heidi Walcher (2000). "Face of the Seven Spheres: Urban Morphology and Architecture in Nineteenth-century Isfahan". Iranian Studies. 33. JSTOR 4311377. + part 2, 2001
Published in the 21st century
  • Philip Mattar, ed. (2004), "Isfahan", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, NY: Macmillan Reference USA – via Global Issues In Context, (Subscription required (help))
  • Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Isfahan". Medieval Islamic Civilization: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
  • Jürgen Paul (2006). "Isfahan: Local Historiography". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • Sussan Babaie (2007). "Isfahan: Monuments: Bibliography". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Isfahan". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 167–179.
  • Sussan Babaie. Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiʿism, and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
  • Heidi A. Walcher (2008). In the Shadow of the King: Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850434344.
  • David Durand-Guédy (2010). Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūuq Period. Routledge. ISBN 9780415457101.
  • Habib Borjian (2012). "Isfahan: Modern Economy And Industries: Isfahan City". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • Masashi Haneda; Rudi Matthee (2012). "Isfahan: Safavid Period". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • Hossein Kamaly (2012). "Isfahan: Medieval Period". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). "Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Isfahan". Encyclopædia Iranica.
  • Habibollah Zanjani (2012). "Isfahan: Population: Isfahan City". Encyclopædia Iranica.

in other languages

  • Abu’l-Šayḵ ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad, Ṭabaqāt al-moḥaddeṯin be-Eṣfahān wa’l-wāredin ʿalayhā (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 10th century CE)
  • Al-Mafarrukhí, Maḥāsen Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Written in 11th century CE)
  • Abu Noʿaym Eṣfahāni, Ḏekr akbār Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 11th century CE)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1676). "Description d'Ispahan ville capitale des Estats du Roy de Perse". Les Six Voyages (in French). Paris.
  • Jean Chardin (1811) [1686]. "(Ispahan)". Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse (in French). 7. Paris. pp. 289+.
  • Claude Anet (1906). "Une semaine a Ispahan". La Perse en automobile: à travers la Russie et le Caucase (in French). Paris: Félix Juven. pp. 233+.
  • Sayyid Ali Al-Jinab. al-Iṣfahān (in Persian). circa 1920s?
  • André Godard (1937). "Isfahan". Āthār-é Īrān / Annales du Service archéologique de l'Iran (in French) (2): 7–176. OCLC 3230219.
  • Helga Anschütz (1967). "Persische Stadttypen. Eine vergleichende Betrachtung der Städte Teheran - Isfahan - Abadan - Chorramschahr, und Buschir in Iran". Geografische Rundschau (in German). 19. ISSN 0016-7460.
  • H. Gaube and E. Wirth. Der Bazar von Isfahan, Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Beihefte B/22, Wiesbaden, 1978.
  • Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche (1980). Isfahan im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur persischen Stadtgeschichte. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen (in German). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.
  • Quaderni del Seminario di iranistica dell'Università di Venezia (in Italian), 1981 (Special issue on Isfahan)
  • Ehsan Yarshater (ed.). "Isfahan". Encyclopædia Iranica. (Includes multiple articles)
  • Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Isfahan". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Europeana)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • "(Isfahan)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University. Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
  • "(Isfahan)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
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