Gammell, C. P. W., <br/><br/>
Pearl of Khorasan :  a history of Herat / 

 - xxi, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some color), maps ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> TRP40/278<br/>GPB30/- 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-434) and index. 
<br/><br/>	Destruction and renewal : Herat in the shadow of the Mongols and beyond : 1221-1381 --<br/>Herat in the age of high art, imperial favour and low politics, 1381-1510 --<br/>Safavids to Pashtuns and the decline of a Timurid jewel, 1510-1747 --<br/>Herat, the key to India : Herat, Khorasan's broken pearl, 1747-1863 --<br/>Herat in an emerging Afghanistan : isolated, sleepy and revolutionary, 1863-1978 --<br/>Herat in a time of leftists, Islamists and opportunists, 1978-2001 --<br/>Epilogue : Herat as it faces the future. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781849046541 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Herat (Afghanistan)--History.<br/>Afghanistan--Herat.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.1 GAM