Ali Akbar Isfahani

Ali Akbar Isfahani (Persian: علی اکبر معمار اصفهانی) was a 17th-century Persian architect of the Safavid era.^[1] He is best known for the Shah Mosque commissioned by Shah Abbas and built in 1611–1631.^[2] His name appears in an inscription in the mosque above the doorway of the entrance iwan complex of the mosque.^[3]

Isfahani was born in 985 AH (1577 AD). He was a pupil of Badi' al-Zaman Yazdi, the grand architect of Shah Abbas.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "برشی از زندگی علی‌اکبر اصفهانی؛ معمار شاخص دوره صفویه". پایگاه خبری وزارت راه و شهرسازی (in Persian). ILNA. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
^ Lonely Planet Iran. Lonely Planet. September 2017. ISBN 9781786575364.
^ Kishwar Rizvi, ed. (19 October 2017). Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires. Brill. pp. 29–30. ISBN 9789004352841.

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[isfahani-1] "برشی از زندگی علی‌اکبر اصفهانی؛ معمار شاخص دوره صفویه". پایگاه خبری وزارت راه و شهرسازی (in Persian). ILNA. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

[2] Lonely Planet Iran. Lonely Planet. September 2017. ISBN 9781786575364.

[architect-3] Kishwar Rizvi, ed. (19 October 2017). Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires. Brill. pp. 29–30. ISBN 9789004352841.

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