Ali Akbar Isfahani

{{Short description|17th-century Persian architect}}

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Ali Akbar Isfahani ({{langx|fa|علی اکبر معمار اصفهانی}}) was a 17th-century Persian architect of the Safavid era. He is best known for the Shah Mosque commissioned by Shah Abbas and built in 1611–1631.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drkyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT382 |title= Lonely Planet Iran |date= September 2017 |publisher= Lonely Planet |isbn= 9781786575364 }} His name appears in an inscription in the mosque above the doorway of the entrance iwan complex of the mosque.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 |title=Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires |date=19 October 2017 |editor= Kishwar Rizvi|pages=29–30 |isbn=9789004352841 |publisher=Brill}}

Isfahani was born in 985 AH (1577 AD). He was a pupil of Badi' al-Zaman Yazdi, the grand architect of Shah Abbas.{{cite web|title=برشی از زندگی علی‌اکبر اصفهانی؛ معمار شاخص دوره صفویه|url=http://news.mrud.ir/news/27920/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%B5-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%87|website=پایگاه خبری وزارت راه و شهرسازی|publisher=ILNA|access-date=20 April 2017|language=fa|date=15 September 2016}}