Historical Gazetteer Of Iran Tehran And Northwestern Iran

"The present edition includes the formerly secret Gazetteer of Iran (compiled in 1918) with corrections and additions of maps and considerable new material to take into account developments up to 1970"--Title page verso.

"The present edition includes the formerly secret Gazetteer of Iran (compiled in 1918) with corrections and additions of maps and considerable new material to take into account developments up to 1970"--Title page verso.

"The present edition includes the formerly secret Gazetteer of Iran (compiled in 1918) with corrections and additions of maps and considerable new material to take into account developments up to 1970"--Title page verso.

This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.

This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as Iran proper. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.