The Land of the Great Sophy

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16 b/w plates included Contents......Page 8 list of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Table of Royal Houses......Page 13 Preface to Second Edition......Page 15 NOTE FOR THIRD EDITION......Page 16 Introduction......Page 17 Part I......Page 19 1. THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE......Page 20 2. HISTORY......Page 25 1. ZOROASTRIANISM......Page 53 2. ISLAM......Page 56 3. BAHA'ISM......Page 64 1. BUILDINGS......Page 66 2. BRONZES......Page 78 3. POTTERY......Page 80 4. CARPETS......Page 83 5. ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT......Page 87 6. PICTORIAL. AND MINOR ARTS......Page 91 Part II......Page 94 CHAPTER FOUR - South of the Elburz......Page 96 CHAPTER FIVE - To Khorasan......Page 116 CHAPTER SIX - The Caspian Rain-Belt......Page 133 CHAPTER SEVEN - To Azerbaijan......Page 156 CHAPTER EIGHT - Media......Page 181 CHAPTER NINE - Isfahan......Page 198 CHAPTER TEN - South of the Desert......Page 223 CHAPTER ELEVEN - Fars......Page 248 CHAPTER TWELVE - Khuzistan and the Gulf......Page 283 Annex to the Third Edition......Page 314 APPENDIX I - Notes on Travel (1978)......Page 318 APPENDIX II - Notes on Travellers and other Authorities......Page 326 Bibliography......Page 330 Index......Page 338 Plates......Page 350