Herat and Cairo were two important Islamic cities in the Middle East, from the seventh to the ninth century AH. Cairo was the capital city of the Mamluks and Herat was the capital city of the Timurid government in Iran. In this paper, the construction of important urban monuments and buildings in the two main arteries, Herat Street (southern part of it) and Cairo’s Qasabeh Street, was examined....

Qavam al-Din Shirazi is one of the prominent architects of the Timurid era who has memorized many works such as the Goharshad Mosque in Mashhad and the Herat Goharshad Mosque. What is considered as an architectural work in the study of a building is the material and physical aspects of the architectural space. Due to the destruction of Heratchr('39')s Goharshad Mosque, one of the ways to unders...

The pictorial rug of "Layla’s camel" belongs to the Qajar era, in which the central image is occupied by the large body of an "intra-hybrid" camel; the outer shape is realistic and the inside is composed of a large number of small human and animal motifs. Creating patterns of some creatures in this way became popular in Iranian painting from the Timurid period, which reached its peak and popul...

Khyber event has a dominant, important and symbolic position for the Shiites. The event is represented on the painting version of various eras in different ways. In this study, three paintings of the conquest of Khaybar were analyzed which were related to Timurid (historical sketch), Turkmen (KHAVARAN-NAME), and Safavi periods (Falname) based on Shiite discourses (Twelve Imams). Shiite discours...

Abstract: The tomb of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardebili is one of a series of important religious buildings and mausoleums that have been created to honor and commemorate Sheikh Safi al-Din and his family, and has various works of art. From the works of this collection you can refer to the vault and the doorway of the beautiful wooden doors that have been kept from various historical periods in this...