The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Isfahan, Iran.

Prior to 16th century

  • 771 - Friday Mosque established in Yahudiyya (approximate date).
  • 1051 - Isfahan besieged by Seljuk forces of Tughril; city becomes capital of the Seljuk Empire.
  • 1070 - Nizamiyya Madrasa built (approximate date).
  • 1107 - Chihil Dukhtaran (minaret) erected.
  • 1194 - Khwarazmian Ala ad-Din Tekish in power.
  • 1226 - City sacked by Mongol forces.
  • 1228 - City besieged by Mongol forces again.
  • 1240/1241 - Isfahan taken by Mongol forces.
  • 1325 - Emamzadeh Jafar (tomb/shrine) built.
  • 1341/1342 - Shaikh Abu Esḥāq Inju becomes governor of Isfahan.
  • 1356 - Amir Mobārez-al-Din Mo-ḥammad Moẓaffari becomes governor of Isfahan.
  • 1387 - Isfahan besieged by forces of Timur.

16th–19th centuries

20th century

21st century

See also

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published prior to 19th century

  • Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), , Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 9780524062142, OCLC , from the original on 29 June 2023 {{citation}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Published in the 20th century

  • , Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 6, New York, 1904, hdl:, from the original on 29 June 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Guy Le Strange (1905). . Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press.
  • Houtum-Schindler, Albert; Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1910). "Isfahān". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). pp. 867–870.
  • Huart (1927). "Iṣfahān". In M.T. Houtsma; et al. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill.
  • C. A. Storey (1936). "History of Persia: Isfahan". Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Vol. 1. London: Luzac & Company. OCLC .
  • Wilfred Blunt (1966). Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. OCLC .
  • Renata Holod, ed. (1974), Studies on Isfahan, Iranian Studies, OCLC
  • John E. Woods (1977). "Note on the Mongol Capture of Iṣfahān". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 36 (1): 49–51. doi:. JSTOR . S2CID .
  • W. Barthold (1984). "Isfahan, Kashan, and Qum". . Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 169–179. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
  • Eckart Ehlers. "Capitals and spatial organization in Iran: Esfahân, Shirâz, Tehran," in Chahryar Adle and Bernard Hourcade, eds., Téhéran: Capitale bicentenaire, (Paris and Teheran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1992), pp. 155–172.
  • Andrew Petersen (1996). "Isfahan". . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-61365-6. from the original on 29 June 2023.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Esfahan", , Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 9781884964039, from the original on 29 June 2023
  • Stephen P. Blake. Half the World: A Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (Costa Mesa, Cal.: Mazda, 1999)
  • Heidi Walcher (2000). "Face of the Seven Spheres: Urban Morphology and Architecture in Nineteenth-century Isfahan". Iranian Studies. 33 (3/4): 327–347. doi:. JSTOR . S2CID . + 2017-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, 2001

Published in the 21st century

  • Philip Mattar, ed. (2004), "Isfahan", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, NY: Macmillan Reference USA – via Global Issues In Context
  • Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Isfahan". . Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7. from the original on 29 June 2023.
  • Jürgen Paul [in German] (2006). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 15 March 2017.
  • Sussan Babaie (2007). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 15 March 2017.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Isfahan". . Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 167–179. ISBN 978-9004153882. from the original on 29 June 2023.
  • Sussan Babaie. Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiʿism, and the Architecture of Conviviality in early modern Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
  • Heidi A. Walcher (2008). In the Shadow of the King: Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850434344.
  • David Durand-Guédy (2010). Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūuq Period. Routledge. ISBN 9780415457101.
  • Habib Borjian (2012). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 8 February 2017.
  • Masashi Haneda; Rudi Matthee (2012). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 17 May 2018.
  • Hossein Kamaly (2012). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 27 December 2012.
  • Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 14 February 2017.
  • Habibollah Zanjani (2012). . Encyclopædia Iranica. from the original on 8 December 2015.
  • Kheirandish, Elaheh. Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750-1750 (Harvard UP, 2021) 2023-06-01 at the Wayback Machine

in other languages

  • Abu'l-Šayḵ ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad, Ṭabaqāt al-moḥaddeṯin be-Eṣfahān wa'l-wāredin ʿalayhā (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 10th century CE)
  • Mafarrukhi, Maḥāsen Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Written in 11th century CE)
  • Abu Noʿaym Eṣfahāni, Ḏekr akbār Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 11th century CE)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1676). . Les Six Voyages (in French). Paris. from the original on 29 June 2023.
  • Jean Chardin (1811) [1686]. . Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse (in French). Vol. 7. Paris. pp. 289+. hdl:. from the original on 29 June 2023.
  • Claude Anet (1906). "Une semaine a Ispahan". (in French). Paris: Félix Juven. pp. 233+.
  • Sayyid Ali Al-Jinab. al-Iṣfahān (in Persian). circa 1920s?
  • André Godard (1937). "Isfahan". Āthār-é Īrān / Annales du Service archéologique de l'Iran (in French) (2): 7–176. OCLC .
  • Helga Anschütz [in German] (1967). "Persische Stadttypen. Eine vergleichende Betrachtung der Städte Teheran - Isfahan - Abadan - Chorramschahr, und Buschir in Iran". Geografische Rundschau (in German). 19. ISSN .
  • H. Gaube and E. Wirth. Der Bazar von Isfahan, Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Beihefte B/22, Wiesbaden, 1978.
  • Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche (1980). Isfahan im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur persischen Stadtgeschichte. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen (in German). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.
  • Quaderni del Seminario di iranistica dell'Università di Venezia (in Italian), 1981 (Special issue on Isfahan)

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