About the journal
The Iranian-Islamic city is more than an assemblage of buildings, spaces, and historical heritage. It represents the manifestation of a cultural and civilizational tradition in the realm of everyday life—where Islamic worldviews, values, and meanings intersect with Iranian history, culture, and environmental contexts, and find expression in spatial organization, ways of inhabiting, social relations, perception, and human experience of the city.
The Quarterly Journal of Iranian-Islamic City Studies is founded on the premise that understanding the Iranian-Islamic city requires attention not only to its physical and spatial structures, but also to its cultural, social, symbolic, perceptual, and lived dimensions. The journal therefore provides an interdisciplinary platform for rethinking the city and fostering dialogue between Islamic thought and heritage, Iranian intellectual and cultural traditions, and contemporary theories and transformations. Rather than treating the Iranian-Islamic city as a fixed model of the past to be reproduced, the journal approaches it as a living, dynamic, and evolving body of knowledge and experience. It seeks to explore how the intellectual, cultural, and spatial resources of the Iranian-Islamic tradition can contribute to understanding contemporary urban challenges, generating new knowledge, and opening alternative horizons for urban thought and practice.
The journal ultimately aims to advance a multidimensional understanding of the Iranian-Islamic city and to encourage theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches capable of establishing creative connections between identity, meaning, and cultural values on the one hand, and the realities and demands of contemporary urban life on the other.
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Open Access Article
1 - Identity Regeneration of Metropolitan Gardens Based on the Moral Principles of Religious Worldviews
Marjan Karimpourshirazi ، Hossein Kalantari Khalilabad * ، Mohammad Reza RezaiIssue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026 -
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2 - Re-reading the Iranian-Islamic Utopia in the Thought of Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani
Hamidreza Saremi * ، Sorayya FarajiIssue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026 -
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3 - Investigating the Role and Position of Privacy in Iranian Housing Architecture Studies Case Study: Scientific and Research Articles Published from 2007 to 2024
Seyyed Hossein Hosseini ، Reza Mirzaei * ، Seyyed Mehdi MaddahiIssue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026 -
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4 - The Evolution of the Logic of Spatial Production: From Communal Nexus to Network Logic and the Reconceptualization of Human Urbanity
Hosna-alsadat Shams Dolatabadi *Issue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026 -
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5 - Assessing the Vitality of Women in Urban Environments from the Perspective of Architectural Design Quality Case Study: Public Spaces of Hamedan City
Roya Sadeghi Fereshteh * ، Nazanin ZamaniIssue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026 -
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6 - Assessing Urban Façades and Townscape Based on Islamic Jurisprudential Principles Case Study: Eram Street in the Vicinity of the Shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (S) Qom
Hamed Hayaty * ، Aref AbbassiIssue 62 , Vol. 16 , Winter 2026
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1 - Spatial Developments of Sirjan During Islamic Period Based on the Archaeological Evidences and the Written Historical Resources
hasan karimian ، Ahmad pourahmad ، Zeinab Afzali *Issue 38 , Vol. 10 , Winter 2020 -
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2 - Spatial Dynamics of Islamic City Based on Complexity Theory; Case Study: Tehran Central District
Hossein Hataminejad * ، Ahmad pourahmad ، Keramatalah Zayyari ، Hosein Behbodi MoghadamIssue 37 , Vol. 10 , Autumn 2019 -
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3 - Review and Qualitative Content Analysis of the Theoretical Origins of Urban Regeneration
Ahmad Pourahmad * ، Akbar Hamidi ، Hossein Hataminejad ، saeed zanganehIssue 47 , Vol. 13 , Spring 2022 -
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4 - Religious Spaces in the Layout and Fabric of Zoroastrian Cities; Case Study: Yazd
hassan karimian ، Fatemeh karimi *Issue 37 , Vol. 10 , Autumn 2019 -
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5 - Analysis of the executive system of renovation plans in worn-out urban textures with emphasis on worn-out textures of Tehran; Case study: Safa and Shahid Asadi neighborhoods
Hossein Kalantari Khalilabad * ، Mahdi HaghiIssue 41 , Vol. 11 , Autumn 2020 -
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6 - Elucidation of the physical patterns of contemporary housing based on the contextual architecture in Kashan; Case study: Selected historical houses of the Qajar dynasty
Hossein kalantari * ، Seyed Amir nezam dost ، Ali yaranIssue 38 , Vol. 10 , Winter 2020 -
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7 - Management of Iranian-Islamic Cities with a Knowledge-based City Approach (Case Study: Shiraz)
Mehrab Shahrivar ، hossein kalantari khalil abad * ، Gholamreza LatifiIssue 45 , Vol. 12 , Autumn 2022 -
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8 - Evaluation and Ranking of Factors Affecting the Perception of Spirituality Sense in the Interior of Mosques; Case study: Nasir Al-Molk Mosque – Shiraz
MOHAMMADREZA MALEKI ، Qader Bayzidi * ، Ali Yoonessi ، Farzin CharehjooIssue 40 , Vol. 11 , Spring 2020 -
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9 - The Impact of Megamalls on the Neighborhood Identity in Tehran; Case study: Atlas Mall
Esmaeil Shiee ، Mahsa hajiani *Issue 36 , Vol. 10 , Summer 2019 -
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10 - Identification and explanation effective factors in Fire Stations site selection in run down texture
Ahmad Heydari ، Hamidreza Joudaki *Issue 38 , Vol. 10 , Winter 2020
