Samarqandâs RigestÄn and its Architectural Meanings
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The article focuses on the central plaza of the city of Samarqand, the seat of Transoxiana under the Sogdians and again under the Timurids. The earliest edifice on the RigestÄn square is an early fifteenth-century madrasa named after the Timurid prince-scholar Ulugh Beg. Although the capital was transferred to Bukhara after the final conquest of Samarqand by the Uzbeks in 1500, the Shaibanids and their successors, the Ashtarkhanids, continued to embellish Samarqand with more imperial constructions. The RigestÄn thus received its final form with two additional madrasas, the ShirdÄr and the TalÄkÄri, by 1660. The article aims at describing and evaluating these structures and their architectural details, vis-Ã -vis the latest scholarship on art history.
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Samarqandâs RigestÄn and its Architectural Meanings
In: Journal of Persianate StudiesSearch for other papers by Sulhiniso Rahmatullaeva in
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Abstract
The article focuses on the central plaza of the city of Samarqand, the seat of Transoxiana under the Sogdians and again under the Timurids. The earliest edifice on the RigestÄn square is an early fifteenth-century madrasa named after the Timurid prince-scholar Ulugh Beg. Although the capital was transferred to Bukhara after the final conquest of Samarqand by the Uzbeks in 1500, the Shaibanids and their successors, the Ashtarkhanids, continued to embellish Samarqand with more imperial constructions. The RigestÄn thus received its final form with two additional madrasas, the ShirdÄr and the TalÄkÄri, by 1660. The article aims at describing and evaluating these structures and their architectural details, vis-Ã -vis the latest scholarship on art history.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 436 | 88 | 4 |
| Full Text Views | 208 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 201 | 2 | 0 |
