At Rice, Farshid Emami teaches introductory survey courses on art history and Islamic art and architecture. He also teaches an undergraduate course on the global history of coffeehouses and teahouses.

Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639, by Sinem Arcak Casale: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 326 pp.; 108 … Review of Development, Architecture, and...

FARSHID EMAMI Curriculum Vitae Department of Art History Rice University P.O. Box 1892, MS 21 Houston, TX 77251-1892 [email protected] EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, 2017 Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, 2011 M.S. in Architectural Studies

Using key sources, Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran (Penn State University Press, 2024) reconstructs the spaces and senses of this dynamic city. Focusing on …

Using key sources, this book reconstructs the spaces and senses of this dynamic city. Focusing on nuances of urban experience, Farshid Emami expands our understanding of Isfahan in a global context.

2024年4月2日 · “Farshid Emami’s ambitious study of one of the most celebrated cities of the Islamic world sheds new light on Isfahan’s urban transformation in the early modern period and reconstructs the way urban dwellers experienced and perceived the city, not only as a work of architecture but as a living space.

178 Farshid Emami this indeed provides a more useful model for under-standing coffeehouses as public sites in all historical contexts, including, as we shall see, safavid isfahan. and in analyzing Eurasian societies in the early modern pe-riod, one needs to consider public spheres as intercon-nected realities, informed in the context of an

2024年4月4日 · Assistant Professor Farshid Emami’s new book Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran (Penn State University Press) was recently released on April 2, 2024.

Farshid Emami is an associate professor of art history at Rice University where he specializes in art and architecture of the Islamic world with a focus on the early modern period and particularly Safavid Iran.