About the Author; Title Page; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Praise for the Book; 1 Introduction; 2 The Garden and Pavilion in Near Eastern Pre-Islamic Texts, the Qur'an and Persian Poetry; 3 The Garden and Pavilion in Persian Art; 4 The Garden and Pavilion through the Lens of Travellers and Historians; Matrix; Plates; Glossary of Terms; Poets, Historians and Travellers; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Conclusion
From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century BC. Here, Mohammad Gharipour places both the garden and the pavilion within their historical, literary and artistic contexts, emphasizing the importance of the pavilion, so overlooked in the study of Iranian historical architecture. He does so by examining the representations of gardens and pavilions in religious texts (such as the Zoroastrian Aban Yasht or the Qur'an), the poet
