ABSTRACT
Every Persian city has some special feature that distinguishes it from other towns. There are, for example, the great square and mosque of Isfahan, the ark, or citadel, of Tabriz, the leaning minar of Kashan and the gold-domed shrine of Kum; but all these cities are more or less alike in their labyrinths of narrow alleys enclosed with high mud walls, opening out here and there into squares, and the bazaars are all built on a fairly uniform pattern.
