Safa Mahmoudian

Wolfson College, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford Safa Mahmoudian is an art and architectural historian, who has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Her doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Vienna received the Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize in 2022. Her first monograph, titled The Story of Fadan M d Life, Architecture and Urban Spaces along a Canal in Safavid Isfahan (in Persian, Tehran: Rawzana)...See more

Wolfson College, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford Safa Mahmoudian is an art and architectural historian, who has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Her doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Vienna received the Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize in 2022. Her first monograph, titled The Story of Fadan M d Life, Architecture and Urban Spaces along a Canal in Safavid Isfahan (in Persian, Tehran: Rawzana) explores the riverine landscape of a main water canal - Fadan M d - in seventeenth-century Isfahan from various angles. Her investigations demonstrated the crucial role that the water system of Isfahan played in shaping the city's morphology, architecture and daily life. See less