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The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture. By Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (with a foreword by S. H. Nasr). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xviii + 151 pp., 176 illustrations (15 in color), glossary, bibliography, index. $17.50.

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The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture. By Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar (with a foreword by S. H. Nasr). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xviii + 151 pp., 176 illustrations (15 in color), glossary, bibliography, index. $17.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Lisa Golombek  and
Annemarie Schimmel
Lisa Golombek
Affiliation:
West Asian Department, Royal Ontario Museum; Department of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto
Annemarie Schimmel
Affiliation:
Harvard University and the Unitersity of Bonn
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Iranian Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1-2 , Spring Winter 1975 , pp. 87 - 104
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1975

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Notes

1. Guest, G. D. and Ettinghausen, R., “The Iconography of a Kashan Luster Plate,” Ars Orientalis 4 (1961), pp. 25–64Google Scholar.

2. Rempel, L. I., Arkhitekturnyi Ornament Uzbekistana (Tashkent, 1961)Google Scholar; Bulatov, M. S., “Iskusnye Geometricheskie Priemy v Zodchestve Samarkanda kontsa XIV — nachala XVvv,” Iskusstvo Zodchikh Uzbekistana 4 (1969), pp. 64–106Google Scholar.

3. I am grateful to Mr. Bagher Shirazi of the National Organization for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Iran at Isfahan for this information.

4. The main sources for the early history of Isfahan are Abū Nuᶜaym (K. Dhikr Akhbār Iṣfahān), al-Māfarrūkhī (Maḥāsin Iṣfahān), with brief but very important comments by Ibn Ḥawqal (Ṣūrah al-Arḓ) and al-Muqaddasī (K. Aḥsan al-Taqāsīm fī Maᶜrifah al-Aqālīm). I have discussed the sources in further detail in “Urban Patterns in Pre-Safavid Isfahan,” Iranian Studies, Vol. VT”. Nos. 1-2 (Winter-Spring, 1974), pp. 18-44.

5. Bosvorth, C. E., “The Heritage of Rulership in Early Islamic Iran and the Search for Dynastic Connections With the Past,” Iran 11 (1973), pp. 51–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar.