Pearl of Khorasan : a history of Herat /
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xxi, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781849046541
- 958.1 GAM
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-434) and index.
Destruction and renewal : Herat in the shadow of the Mongols and beyond : 1221-1381 --
Herat in the age of high art, imperial favour and low politics, 1381-1510 --
Safavids to Pashtuns and the decline of a Timurid jewel, 1510-1747 --
Herat, the key to India : Herat, Khorasan's broken pearl, 1747-1863 --
Herat in an emerging Afghanistan : isolated, sleepy and revolutionary, 1863-1978 --
Herat in a time of leftists, Islamists and opportunists, 1978-2001 --
Epilogue : Herat as it faces the future.
The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has been an imperial capital, a city of extraordinary wealth, and has played host to a cultural renaissance to rival that of Florence. The Pearl of Khorasan tells the history of this storied oasis
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