Michael Rubin reviews Ernest S. Tucker’s Nadir Shah’s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran. In the early eighteenth century, Nadir Shah tore like a whirlwind across the Iranian plateau. The ...

Explore masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman art from the Musée du Louvre at the Asian Civilisations Museum, highlighting cross-cultural exchange. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs, and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious, and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501–1722).

The name “Hasht Behesht,” meaning “Eight Paradises,” evokes an image of divine splendor, and the palace lives up to its title through its remarkable architectural brilliance and intricate decorations.

"With their sumptuous surfaces, original designs and technical sophistication, luxury textiles played a critical role in the social, cultural, religious and economic life of Safavid Iran (1501-1722).

The discoveries were made in Safavid Dolatkhaneh when a team of restorers engaged in ongoing efforts to restore and preserve the historical royal site, Qazvin’s tourism chief Alireza Khazaeli said on ...

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...

Doha, Qatar: The exhibition 'Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran' has opened at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and will be on view in MIA's Sheikh Saoud Gallery until April 20, 2024, ...

Azerbaijan's Safavid Empire coveringthe entire territory of contemporary Iran, Iraq and parts of Turkey, and the Caucasus, was one of the biggest and strongest regional powers entered the world map in ...

In “Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles From the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (comprising the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler ...