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ʿAbbās I Masjed-e Emām (“Imam Mosque”) Isfahan, Iran: Masjed-e Shaykh Luṭf Allāh (“Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque”) The Maydān-e Emām (formerly the Maydān-e Shāh), originally built as a polo ground by Shāh ʿAbbās I the Great (reigned 1588–1629), at Eṣfahān, Iran. Facing the square on the left is the mosque of Shaykh Luṭf Allāh, in the centre the Masjed-e Emām (formerly the Masjed-e Shāh), and at right the palace of ʿAlī Qāpū. Engraved portrait of Abbas I, the Great, shah of Persia, shown with a feathered hat, mustache, and ornate robe inside an oval decorative border.
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ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I, detail of a painting by the Mughal school of Jahāngīr, c. 1620; in the...
Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Masjed-e Emām (“Imam Mosque”)
Masjed-e Emām (“Imam Mosque”), formerly Masjed-e Shāh, Eṣfahān, Iran.
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Isfahan, Iran: Masjed-e Shaykh Luṭf Allāh (“Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque”)
Courtyard of the Masjed-e Shaykh Luṭf Allāh (“Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque”), Isfahan,...
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The Maydān-e Emām (formerly the Maydān-e Shāh), originally built as a polo ground...
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Abbas I (the Great) of Persia
A later artistic impression (date unknown) of Abbas I (the Great) of Persia, who...
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