{"id":491,"date":"2017-07-18T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:45:21","slug":"inside-the-coffeehouses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/illuminating-objects-home\/queen-anne-silver-coffee-pot\/inside-the-coffeehouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Coffeehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coffeehouses in Isfahan\u2019s main square or<em>\u00a0maydan<\/em>\u00a0were situated next to each other. Large carpeted rooms opened onto the busy square. Customers would sit or recline directly on the carpets while being served coffee and smoking water-pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Storytelling and performance of folktales and religious accounts were regular activities of the coffeehouse<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Safavid coffeehouses were also central in shaping the poetry culture of the age. People would often visit coffeehouses to listen to poetry and poets in debate. Artists brought drawings to show and discuss in coffeehouses, sometimes as payment for their drinks or in exchange for a poem. Travelling dervishes (mystics) and\u00a0<em>mullahs<\/em>(preachers) made regular appearances in coffeehouses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-492\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/inside-the-coffee-houses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/inside-the-coffee-houses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/inside-the-coffee-houses.jpg 428w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/inside-the-coffee-houses-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sound of water from the fountains ran in the background to conversations, storytelling and poetry recitations and was overlaid by the bubbly sound of the water-pipe. The Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I (reigned from 1588 to 1629) engaged in conversation with poets at the \u2018Arab\u2019 and \u2018Haji-Yusef\u2019 coffeehouses in Isfahan. He occasionally entertained foreign delegates to his court at these coffeehouses, which were decorated specially for royal receptions. The court itself employed a person known as qahvahchi-bashi whose sole responsibility was to oversee the elaborate preparation of coffee and herbal drinks for the royal court.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sound of water from the fountains ran in the background to conversations, storytelling and poetry recitations and was overlaid by the bubbly sound of the water-pipe. The Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I (reigned from 1588 to 1629) engaged in conversation with poets at the \u2018Arab\u2019 and \u2018Haji-Yusef\u2019 coffeehouses in Isfahan. He occasionally entertained foreign delegates to his court at these coffeehouses, which were decorated specially for royal receptions. 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