Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA and director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He has published extensively on architectural history, including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts (IB Tauris).

1 Introduction: Shifting the Historiography of Persianate Architecture Mohammad Gharipour 2 Persian Civitas: Revised Readings on Networked Urbanities and Suburban Hinterlands in Erich Schmidt's Flights over Ancient Cities of Iran Manu Sobti and Sahar Sadat Hosseini 3 Geometry made Manifest: Reorienting the Historiography of Ornament on the Iranian Plateau and Beyond Carol Bier 4 The Myth-making of the Masjid-i Jami¿ of Isfahan: Arthur Upham Pope, Architectural Photographs, and the Persian-Gothic Thesis in the 1930s Yuka Kadoi 5From the Survey of Persian Art to the CIA: Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid Architecture in Iran Patricia Blessing 6 The Shahestan Blueprint: The Vestigial Site of Modernity in Iran Shima Mohajeri 7Instituting Architecture: A History of Transnationalism in Iran's Architecture Profession,1945-1995 Shawhin Roudbari