Kakhani, Ehsan

[ 1 ] - The Royal Seal and the Eternal Power: The quality of Shah Abbas 'Influence upon the Social and Political Status of the Old JĀME Mosque of Isfahan

Abbas I, like many other Iranian kings, devoted special attention to the Jame Mosques. Following Isfahan’s election as his capital, he was trying to renovate the Bazaar and the old mosque, which was faced by the opposition of landowners at the time. Then he decided to build the Naghsh-e Jahan square and set up the Jame Abbasi as a new Jame Mosque in the city. In this paper, the two main compone...