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    This document is a postscript to the author's previous article on four sources that describe Shah Abbas's building of Isfahan. It discusses a brief passage from Junabadi's Rawdatal-safawiyah that was previously overlooked. The passage notes that at the time, the people of Isfahan had laid out a large rectangular public square, and that Abbas initially planned to use it for spear-ring games and polo matches. This suggests the square was originally located near the shrine of Harun Wilayat, rather than being the Naqsh-i Jahan square in front of the palace complex. The postscript clarifies part of the author's previous argument about when the area was first

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    Postscript to "Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas's Building of Isfahan"

    Author(s): R. D. McChesney
    Source: Muqarnas, Vol. 8, K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy (1991), pp. 137-138
    Published by: BRILL
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    POSTSCRIPT TO "FOUR SOURCES ON
    SHAH 'ABBAS'S BUILDING OF ISFAHAN"

    Muqarnas5 (1988), 103-34.

    In myresearchforthearticleon foursourcesto Shah time,in accordancewiththecommandoftheDari-


    (Abbas's buildingofIsfahan,'I overlookeda briefpas- us ofthetime,theIsfahanishad laid outa spacious
    sage inJunabadi's Rawdatal-safawiyah whichpresages rectangular(murabba' qd~imal-arkan)maydanmea-
    thefarmoredetailedpassage inRawdatwhichI did cite suring some 300jaribsin area, bythejaribin use in
    and translate.It slightlymodifiesone of my remarks Isfahan. Any observercasting his glance on it
    aboutlatersourcesremembering (Abbas's firstplanned would be filledwithdelight.In the verycenterof
    use forthe maydan.By itselfit also raises a question the maydan was [erected]a sublimelyloftypole
    aboutthelocationofthemaydanbuildingprogramand (ddri) for the game of spearing the ring (qabaq)
    so needs to be read in conjunctionwiththetranslated [but], much of the time the "shah of time and
    passage in Muqarnas5 (pp. 112-14). space" had themaydan'splayingfield(sdhat)setup
    forpolo (sawlajdn)and lookingas good as thefourth
    fol.291a.
    Rawdatal-safaw-yah,
    Junmbadi, celestialsphere.... A [full]accountofthebuilding
    of thecityof Isfahan thanksto the "architecture-
    mindedness"(mi(m-r himmat) ofthepddshdhofIran
    will come [in due course].'

    j o~4L44?L41ol
    41 J j. -
    The texthere suggeststhat the maydanconstruction
    workof Shah (Abbas took place near the Harun Wi-
    L.) y
    L5W11 I layatshrine,i.e., besidetheSeljuq Masjid-iJum(a.But
    in Junabadi's elaborationof the above (ff.314a-314b)
    j.jL;_I) he leavesno doubtthatit was nottheMaydan-iHarun
    Wilayatthat (Abbas turnedinto a polo grounds,but
    rathertheMaydan-iNaqsh-iJahan,orMaydan-iShah,
    thesquare in frontofthepalace complex.
    This passage modifiesmy assertionon p. 115 that
    "neither [Iskandar Beg nor Junabadi] makes what
    could be consideredan unambiguousreference to the
    firstphase ofthedevelopmentofthe area [as a sports
    and parade ground]." ObviouslyJunabadi seems to
    have been aware that the maydan was originallyin-
    f.291a: 'At thatmoment,2 since theddral-mulk,Is- tendedto be used forsports.He may not have been
    fahan, on account of its abundant supplyofwater aware,however,thatthecommercialuse ofthemaydan
    and thetalentsand numbersofitspeople,had come as he knewit was nota partof (Abbas's originalplan.
    to bear thestampofa paradisicalplace and [to be]
    theplace fora sovereignofheavenlyauthority, the R. D. McChesney
    fullattentionof thepddshdh was directedtowards New YorkUniversity
    thedesignand construction (tartib ofthis
    wa-ta(mir)
    Paradise-likecity (baladah).First,he decreed the
    NOTES
    expansionofa square (mayddn) whichstoodin front
    of (darpzshgdh-i)
    the shrine(imdmzddah) of theone 1. The foursourcescited were: (1) Mahmid b. Hidayat Allah,
    worthyof exaltation,HarfinWilayat. In a short Afiushtah-i
    Natanzi,Nuq-watal-dthdrfi dhikr ed. Ihsan
    al-akhydr

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    138 POSTSCRIPT

    Ishriqi (Tehran, 1350 [1971]); (2) Jalil al-Din Muhammad 2. The nextprecedingdate givenis 996 [1587-88],buttheauthor,
    Tdrikh-i
    Yazdi, munajjim-bdshi, (Abbdis,BritishMuseum, ms. no. writingmorethan thirtyyearsafterthe date, probablyhad a
    Or. Add. 27,241;(3) IskandarBeg Munshi,Tdrikh-i (adlam-drd-yi somewhatlater timein mind. Natanzi dates the workon the
    (Abbdsi,ed. Iraj Afshar2 vols. Isfahan,1334 [1956]); (4) Mirzai maydanto thefourthaccessionyearof (Abbas (21 March 1590-
    Beg b. Hasan Junibidi, Rawdatal-safaw-yah, BritishMuseum, 20 March 1591).
    ms. no. Or. 3388.

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