Iranian Expanse

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29003-7
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 287 mm, Gewicht: 1654 g

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Canepa, Matthew P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Iran and Building Iranian Empires

PART ONE Ordering the Earth
2 Building the First Persian Empire
3 The Destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the Creation of Seleucid Iran
4 The Rise of the Arsacids and a New Iranian Topography of Power
5 Rival Visions and New Royal Identities in Post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus
6 Sasanian Rupture and Renovation

PART TWO Sacred Spaces
7 Persian Religion and Achaemenid Sacred Spaces
8 The Seleucid Transformation of Iranian Sacred Spaces
9 Ancient Sacred Landscapes and Memories of Persian Religion in Anatolia and the Caucasus

PART THREE Landscapes of Time and Memory
10 Iranian Funerary Landscapes
11 Dynastic Sanctuaries
12 Sasanian Memory and the Persian Monumental and Ritual Legacy
13 Reshaping Iran’s Past and Building Its Future

PART FOUR Palace and Paradise
14 Persian Palatial Cosmologies
15 The Seleucid and Arsacid Transformations of Iranian Palatial Architecture
16 The Palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World
17 Earthly Paradises
Epilogue

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew P. Canepa holds the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at the University of California, Irvine. Author of the award winning book, The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, he is an Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.