Here, Ayatollah Bid-abadi Street is the point of interest for us. Since years ago, this part of Isfahan was covered with bid (or willow trees), and so the appellation: Bīd-ābād.

It is recorded by Hamze Isfahani, the 10th-century historian of Isfahan, that Isfahan had four gates at that time and one of them, Mah (the moon) or Asfish, was located in Bid-Abad neighborhood.

However, the neighborhood of Bid-abad formed a marginal part of the city for centuries. During the reign of Safav...

Abu Masud Ahmad ibn Forat Rāzi, was one of the famous scientists of the tenth century. What is now known as the "tomb of Masudieh", was used to be called Masudieh convent and neighborhood. The historians who visited Isfahan during that time announced that Masudieh neighborhood included a convent, a bazaar, a Chahar-Suq, a bath and a garden. From this complex, only an entrance portal is left. Above this entrance portal, there is an inscription in sols script on a white mosaic tile with a dark blue ba...

Historically speaking, the very first urban developments of Isfahan, has been traced in the 10th century, when the powerful Buyid dynasty was ruling over Iran (934-1062). At that time, the major part of Isfahan was encompassed by a defensive wall and divided into four main neighborhoods (mahalleh) of Jubareh (in the northeast), Karran (in the southeast), Kushk (in the southwest) and Dardasht which was occupied the northwest of the area inside the wall. The magnificent 4 MIN(S) BY WALKING

During the reign of Buyids, particularly under the supervision of their grand minister, Sahib Ibn Abbad, a big library was built in Isfahan, and the city turned into a center of education. This prospering of science and education was contemporaneous with a time when the great Persian philosopher and physician, Avicenna, was conducting his productive life of reading and writing about the unknown mysteries of the world. Accused of treachery, Avicenna escaped the court of now dead Shams al-Dowla and, with the help of hi...

Baba Qasem was a 14th-century theologian, who taught in Imamieh Madrasa, the oldest theological school in Isfahan. Here, the title "Baba", needs a short explanation. During the 14th and 15th centuries, there was a group of Sufis in Isfahan who bore the title baba, as a form of venerable address. However, after years of ascetic life, Baba-Qasem died and one of his disciples, Soleyman Abu'l Hassan Tahit al-Damghani, built a tomb and mausoleum over his grave in 1324. The mausoleum is otherwise known as the oath mausoleum, since when...