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Around a great tiled square and bridged river, Isfahan is an inland Iranian city of domes and shaded avenues. Shah Abbas made it his Safavid capital around 1598 and built its great square and mosques, teaching stories to link craft, faith and royal planning. The Physician and The Blood of Flowers sit on its shelf. Open Isfahan on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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4 famous stories set in Isfahan

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Browse 3 books and 1 movie set in Isfahan.

The Physician

The Physician

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England 1021. Rob Cole a boy born in a miserable mining town swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and…

Setting: England; Isfahan, PersiaTime Period: 11th Century
The Blood of Flowers

The Blood of Flowers

by Anita Amirrezvani (Goodreads Author)
book

In the fabled city of Isfahan, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate: Her beloved father had died and left her without a dowry. Forced to work as a servant in the home of her uncle, a rich…

Setting: ['Isfahan (Iran)', 'Persia', 'Iran']Time Period: 1969
Risiko

Risiko

by Steffen Kopetzky
book

Geheimexpedition des Deutschen Reichs an den Hindukusch: Nach einem Plan des Orientkenners Freiherr Max von Oppenheim ziehen sechzig Mann mit der Bagdadbahn, zu Pferd und auf Kamelen durch Wüsten und Gebirge. Das Ziel:…

Setting: ['Durrës (Albania)', 'Annaba (Algeria)', 'Constantinople (Turkey)', 'Isfahan (Iran)', 'Herat (Afghanistan)', 'Kabul (Afghanistan)']Time Period: 1914; World War I
دیوان هاتف اصفهانی

دیوان هاتف اصفهانی

by هاتف اصفهانی
book

سید احمد هاتف اصفهانی از جمله بزرگترین شاعران ایران در قرن دوازدهم هجری و از گویندگانی است که در احیا سبک شاعران قدیم پارسی گوی اثر بسیار داشته است. مولد وی اصفهان بود و به سال ۱۱۹۸ هجری در گذشت. هاتف در نظم و نثر و در…

Setting: Isfahan, IranTime Period: 1198

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