Timeline of Isfahan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Isfahan, Iran.

Prior to 16th century

  • c. 538 BC - Jews settle in Isfahan
  • 771 - Friday Mosque established in Yahudiyya (approximate date).[1]
  • 1051 - Isfahan besieged by Seljuk forces of Tughril;[2] city becomes capital of the Seljuk Empire.[3]
  • 1070 - Nezamiyeh Madrasa built (approximate date).[1]
  • 1107 - Chihil Dukhtaran (minaret) erected.[1]
  • 1194 - Khwarazmian Ala ad-Din Tekish in power.[4]
  • 1226 - City sacked by Mongol forces.[2]
  • 1228 - City besieged by Mongol forces again.[2][5]
  • 1240/1241 - Isfahan taken by Mongol forces.[5][4]
  • 1325 - Emamzadeh Jafar (tomb/shrine) built.[1]
  • 1341/1342 - Shaikh Abu Esḥāq Inju becomes governor of Isfahan.[2]
  • 1356 - Amir Mobārez-al-Din Mo-ḥammad Moẓaffari becomes governor of Isfahan.[2]
  • 1387 - Isfahan besieged by forces of Timur.[2][6]

16th-19th centuries

20th century

21st century

  • 2003
  • 2011 - Population: 1,756,126.[20]
  • 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
  • 2014 - City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 2.
  • 2015
  • 2023
    • Three hundred classes and Thirty one schools need dire reconstruction due to land subsidence.[21]
    • Isfahan girls team become national judo championship Sport Talents 2022 champion. Basketball team win championship[22][23]
    • Ministry of Communications report eight percent of the population are supported by fiber optic coverage.[24]
    • 2023 Iran drone attacks[25]
    • Eighth national cybernetic security conference held.[26]
    • Muscat trade/business week event[27]
    • Population ageing document created.[28]
    • 99.54% of the population have natural gas network access.[29]
    • 48 billion toman dedicated for cyber security.[30]
    • In north and south 200 hectares of land are protected from Grasshoppers that are endemic.[31]
    • Minister of road and urban development said they want a fourth satellite city program , three settlements at Esfahan , this new city is located 25 km north east near Komeshcheh .[32]
    • In June First female addiction homeless rehab center was opened.[33]
    • Minister of Sport and Youth opened first couple expert matchmaking for marriage.[34][35]
    • Unemployed 180,000, jobs opennings 12000[36]
    • Donyaye Eqtesad reported housing crisis[37]
    • New youth center district 2[38]
    • Blackout reported after sabotage [39]
    • Shah Mosque tower and tower and dome tilted 14 billion toman allocated to renovate the buildings[40]
    • Shiraz freeway opened[41]
    • 5994 remaining Alley ways in city renamed to names of killed of Iraq Iran war by the municipality and government.[42]
    • 10 women of Bahai faith were being persecuted by Iranian Islamic state government[43]

See also

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This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Published prior to 19th century

  • Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Isfahan", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 9780524062142, OCLC 8979039, archived from the original on 29 June 2023, retrieved 7 February 2017

Published in the 20th century

  • "Ispahan", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 6, New York, 1904, hdl:2027/mdp.49015002282268, archived from the original on 29 June 2023, retrieved 9 February 2017{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Guy Le Strange (1905). "Jibal: (Isfahan)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press.
  • Houtum-Schindler, Albert; Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke (1910). "Isfahān" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). pp. 867–870.
  • Huart (1927). "Iṣfahān". In M.T. Houtsma; et al. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill.
  • C. A. Storey (1936). "History of Persia: Isfahan". Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Vol. 1. London: Luzac & Company. OCLC 1312518.
  • Wilfred Blunt (1966). Isfahan: Pearl of Persia. OCLC 711992.
  • Renata Holod, ed. (1974), Studies on Isfahan, Iranian Studies, OCLC 4762427
  • John E. Woods (1977). "Note on the Mongol Capture of Iṣfahān". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 36 (1): 49–51. doi:10.1086/372531. JSTOR 544126. S2CID 161867404.
  • W. Barthold (1984). "Isfahan, Kashan, and Qum". An Historical Geography of Iran. Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 169–179. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
  • Eckart Ehlers. "Capitals and spatial organization in Iran: Esfahân, Shirâz, Tehran," in Chahryar Adle and Bernard Hourcade, eds., Téhéran: Capitale bicentenaire, (Paris and Teheran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1992), pp. 155–172.
  • Andrew Petersen (1996). "Isfahan". Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-61365-6. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Esfahan", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 9781884964039, archived from the original on 29 June 2023, retrieved 6 February 2017
  • Stephen P. Blake. Half the World: A Social Architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (Costa Mesa, Cal.: Mazda, 1999)
  • Heidi Walcher (2000). "Face of the Seven Spheres: Urban Morphology and Architecture in Nineteenth-century Isfahan". Iranian Studies. 33 (3/4): 327–347. doi:10.1080/00210860008701985. JSTOR 4311377. S2CID 144016605. + part 2 Archived 2017-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, 2001

Published in the 21st century

  • Philip Mattar, ed. (2004), "Isfahan", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, NY: Macmillan Reference USA – via Global Issues In Context
  • Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Isfahan". Medieval Islamic Civilization: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • Jürgen Paul [in German] (2006). "Isfahan: Local Historiography". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • Sussan Babaie (2007). "Isfahan: Monuments: Bibliography". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Isfahan". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 167–179. ISBN 978-9004153882. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • Sussan Babaie. Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiʿism, and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
  • Heidi A. Walcher (2008). In the Shadow of the King: Zill al-Sultān and Isfahān under the Qājārs. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850434344.
  • David Durand-Guédy (2010). Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūuq Period. Routledge. ISBN 9780415457101.
  • Habib Borjian (2012). "Isfahan: Modern Economy And Industries: Isfahan City". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 8 February 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  • Masashi Haneda; Rudi Matthee (2012). "Isfahan: Safavid Period". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  • Hossein Kamaly (2012). "Isfahan: Medieval Period". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  • Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). "Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Isfahan". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  • Habibollah Zanjani (2012). "Isfahan: Population: Isfahan City". Encyclopædia Iranica. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  • Kheirandish, Elaheh. Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750-1750 (Harvard UP, 2021) excerpt Archived 2023-06-01 at the Wayback Machine

in other languages

  • Abu'l-Šayḵ ʿAbd-Allāh b. Moḥammad, Ṭabaqāt al-moḥaddeṯin be-Eṣfahān wa'l-wāredin ʿalayhā (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 10th century CE)
  • Mafarrukhi, Maḥāsen Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Written in 11th century CE)
  • Abu Noʿaym Eṣfahāni, Ḏekr akbār Eṣfahān (in Arabic) (Biographical dictionary written in 11th century CE)
  • Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1676). "Description d'Ispahan ville capitale des Estats du Roy de Perse". Les Six Voyages (in French). Paris. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  • Jean Chardin (1811) [1686]. "(Ispahan)". Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse (in French). Vol. 7. Paris. pp. 289+. hdl:2027/nyp.33433082406509. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  • Claude Anet (1906). "Une semaine a Ispahan". La Perse en automobile: à travers la Russie et le Caucase (in French). Paris: Félix Juven. pp. 233+.
  • Sayyid Ali Al-Jinab. al-Iṣfahān (in Persian). circa 1920s?
  • André Godard (1937). "Isfahan". Āthār-é Īrān / Annales du Service archéologique de l'Iran (in French) (2): 7–176. OCLC 3230219.
  • Helga Anschütz [in German] (1967). "Persische Stadttypen. Eine vergleichende Betrachtung der Städte Teheran - Isfahan - Abadan - Chorramschahr, und Buschir in Iran". Geografische Rundschau (in German). 19. ISSN 0016-7460.
  • H. Gaube and E. Wirth. Der Bazar von Isfahan, Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients, Beihefte B/22, Wiesbaden, 1978.
  • Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche (1980). Isfahan im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur persischen Stadtgeschichte. Islamkundliche Untersuchungen (in German). Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.
  • Quaderni del Seminario di iranistica dell'Università di Venezia (in Italian), 1981 (Special issue on Isfahan)

External links

  • Ehsan Yarshater (ed.). "Isfahan". Encyclopædia Iranica. (Includes multiple articles)
  • Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Isfahan". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Europeana)
  • Items related to Isfahan, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • "(Isfahan)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University. Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
  • "(Isfahan)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
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