Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: The New Mosque (Masjid-i Nu) at ^hiraz

Text Appearing After Image: VKKLO()KI>((J ShIRAZ THE HISTORY OF SHIRAZ 325 citadel (^Kohandiz) in the tenth century, and Yakut (c. A.D.1220) states that the Buyid ruler Abu Kalanjar Sultan ad-Daulah fortified Shiraz with strong walls in the eleventh cen-tury (a.h. 440).1 These fortifications, however, were of noavail against the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane, when hesacked the town two hundred and fifty years later. Successiverulers restored and embellished the city, but their work was,usually destroyed later by the forces of nature or through thecapture of the town by enemies. Shiraz owes most of itsarchitectural beauty to-day to Karim Khan (1751-1779), whogoverned it as regent under the Safavid dynasty in the latterhalf of the eighteenth century. Many of the effects of hisrefining influence were nullified by the eunuch ruler, AghaMohammed Khan, who razed its stone ramparts to the ground,replaced them by mud walls, and reduced the city to a rankunworthy of its traditional prestige. Among the architectu

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