Scientific education had been prevalent in Iran from many times ago. Although there are limited information of learning situation in pre-Islamic Iran, after Islam conquest the acquisition of knowledge which had a great correlation with religion flouri shed in Iran. According to the P rophet’s tradition of sermons to his followers, the first place which was used for educational purposes in the...

Given the changes that have taken place in recent centuries, many changes have occurred in the facade and its elements, and has caused turbulence in the visual appearance of buildings. However, throughout the history of the late Qajar and early period of the first Pahlavi era, architectural styles have been the continuation and complement of previous styles. In the history of Iranian architectu...

Among the many surviving architectural edifices of the pre-Safavid Islamic era in Iran, there are mainly the burial places, religious and public benefit buildings. However, as a matter of fact, throughout a time span of a thousand years, from the beginning of Islam until the Safavids, there is not a considerable number of palaces which belong to the pre-Safavid Iran. Therefore, the main questio...

The iwān is one of the most prominent spaces of Iranian architecture whose background can be traced to the historical site of Hasanlu IV (ninth to eleventh centuries B.C.). The inclusion of the iwān in Iranian architecture indicates that it is an historical model and a consistent feature of Iranian architecture, maintaining its continuity over centuries and millennia. This study investigates th...

The common division in Iranian architectural history to two separate periods - pre-Islamic and Islamic - which was once efficient, has gradually lost its motivating power. Such a cliché had consequences including disregarding the architecture of the very transitional era from the late Sassanid to the early Islamic period. Understanding the real changes, evolutions, breaks, and continuity...

معماری اسامی ایران تداوم طبیعی معماری دوره ساسانی است و شناخت و مطالعه این معماری می تواند راه گشای ما در شناخت معماری دوره اسامی و جنب ههای مختلف آن باشد. متأسفانه علی رغم این مهم معماری این دوره به طور شایسته و جامع شناسایی و مطالعه نشده و ابهامات اساسی در خصوص سیر تحول و تکامل این معماری، تاریخ گذاری بناهای بر جای مانده، گون هشناسی، عناصر و اجزا، تکنیک ها، شیوه های معماری و موارد دیگر وجود د...