Yazd City Walls
Iran Yazd 11,12,13th Century
Seljuk
1033-1346-1390
The city walls of Yazd are known as some of the best examples of the architecture of the different historical periods of ıran. An outpost before becoming a capital, Yazd held a strategic position, which continued ta increase from the Sasanian period onward. The city especially controlled the roads going ta the Kavir region of lran.
The amir al-Mascüd al-Bihishtı Abu'l- Najm Badr and the amir al-Muzaffar Abu Yacqüb lshaq, both sons of Inal and both Clients of the Commander of the Faithful, ordered the furnishing and installation of it in the year four hundred and thirty-two [11 Sept. 104(). 30 August 1041]. The work of Muhammad b. Abu lshaq, the ironworker of Isfahan.
Bonine, M., "Yazd and fs hinterland: A Ceııtral Place System of Dominance in the Central lranian Plateau", University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1980, s.132.
Hutt, A., and Harrow, L., "lslam archecture: Iran 2", Landon: Scorpion Publishers, 1978, s.137.
Lockhardt, L., "Famous Cities of ıran" Loııdon: Luzac & Company, 1960, s.61.
Pope, A.U., "lslamic Architecture in A Survey of Persian Art Irom Prehistoric Times ta Present", Vol. il. Tehran: Soroush Press, 1977, s.1242.
