An Architectural Accounting Record from Shiraz, 1339
Key information
- Date
- Time
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7:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
Speaker: Yusen Yu
Abstract
This paper draws on a neglected report of the construction of a mansion (bala-qasr) in Shiraz from the Risala-yi falakiyya, a mid-fourteenth-century accounting manual, which offers a rare glimpse of the building process in pre-modern Islam. Reading this document in a broader context, the paper hopes to shed new light on the social and architectural history of medieval Shiraz.
Speaker biography
Yusen Yu is Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History at the University of St Andrews. Prior to that, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He studied Islamic Art History at SOAS, and completed his PhD at Heidelberg University, Germany. He works on medieval Islamic art and architecture in its urban, nomadic and maritime contexts.
Contact
Email: rw51@soas.ac.uk
Image: Bihzad, The Building of the Castle of Khwarnaq (Herat 1494–1495), © British Library, Or. 6810, folio 154v
