Abstract:
Review of PERSIAN KINGSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE: STRATEGIES OF POWER IN IRAN FROM THE ACHAEMENID TO THE PAHLAVIS, SUSSAN BABAIE AND TALINN GRIGOR, EDS (2015) London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 260 pp., 127 illus., ISBN: 9781848857513, $99.00 (hardback) and THE AGE OF THE SELJUQS: THE IDEA OF IRAN, VOLUME VI, EDMUND HERZIG AND SARAH STEWART, EDS (2015) London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 188 pp., 25 illus., ISBN: 9781780769479, $80.00 (hardback)