Description

Detailed map of Isfahan, printed in English and Persian, shows the map of the city in the beginning of the 1970s on one side and describes tourist information on the back.

Marked are the most important tourist attractions. On August 11 1979 during the Iranian Revolution the symbols of Western culture and government buildings were burned.

Sahab – The Father of Iran’s Cartography

The Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute was founded in Tehran in 1935, becoming the first private geographic and mapmaking enterprise in the Middle East.  Its founder Abolghasem Sahab was succeeded by his son Abbas Sahab, who later became known as the ”Father of Iran’s Cartography”.

He was born in Fam, in Tafresh district in Iran. His father Ostad Abolghasem Sahab Tafreshi was a famous writer and author of about seventy titles on historic, geographic, religious, cultural and artistic topics.

Abbas Sahab devoted himself to cartography already during the time off his studies in Teheran. During his life he created more than 1,500 valuable works including maps, atlases, plates, scientific and medical illustrations, as well as geographic globes.

Sahab was very active on the international level. He was an active member of the International Cartographic Association. Between 1968-1971 he issued maps of other countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Turkey.

In 1970 Sahab organized the First International Map Exhibition in the Tehran Teachers Training High School and in the next years he hosted similar events in the other cities.

In his last years of his life, he dedicated himself to his monumental work: The Great Atlas of 14 Centuries of Islamic Arts in 20 volumes, of which the first volume was published in 2000.

After Sahab’s death the printing house was taken over by his sons and is still active today. Sahab’s unique library with thousands of volumes on cartography also survives intact today.

(Source: http://www.sahabmap.com/company_sahab_biography.htm)