Editing Minbar (section)

=== Iran ===
[[File:Jāmeh Mosque of Nā'īn-Mehrab-01.jpg|thumb|[[Ilkhanate|Ilkhanid]]-era minbar in the [[Great Mosque of Na'in]] in Iran (1311)]] 
Iranian minbars typically have no canopy or dome at the top, distinguishing them from minbars in other regions.<ref name=":242" /> In [[Greater Iran|Iran]], [[Mesopotamia|Mesopotomia]], and [[Anatolia]], some wooden minbars preserved from the 11th and 12th centuries are carved with vegetal [[Abbasid architecture#Decoration|beveled-style]] motifs.<ref name=":242" /> Most other early minbars in Iran and Afghanistan were destroyed during the [[Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia|Mongol invasions]] of the 13th century.<ref name=":1" />

The most significant minbars preserved from the [[Ilkhanate|Ilkhanid]] period (13th–14th centuries) include those in the [[Jameh Mosque of Nain|Great Mosque of Na'in]] (1311) and in the prayer hall added by [[Öljaitü|Uljaytu]] to the [[Great Mosque of Isfahan]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Blair |first1=Sheila S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mhIgewDtNkC&pg=PA24 |title=The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 |last2=Bloom |first2=Jonathan M. |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-300-06465-0 |pages=24 |language=en}}</ref> Both are wooden structures, with the former's flanks decorated by rectangular panels with beveled motifs and the latter's flanks decorated by octagonal geometric motifs. The minbar in Na'in is also one of the few Iranian minbars topped by a canopy.<ref name=":2" />

From the subsequent [[Timurid Empire|Timurid]] period, the most important example is the minbar of the [[Goharshad Mosque|Mosque of Gowhar Shad]] in [[Mashhad]], fabricated between 1336 and 1446.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5">{{Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|pages=73–80|volume=7|article=Minbar|last1=Pedersen|first1=J.|last2=Golmohammadi|first2=J.|last3=Burton-Page|first3=J.|last4=Freeman-Grenville|first4=G.S.P.}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=O'Kane |first=Bernard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQ_qAAAAMAAJ&q=minbar+mashhad+timurid |title=Timurid Architecture in Khurasan |date=1987 |publisher=Mazdâ Publishers |isbn=978-0-939214-35-8 |pages=127 |language=en}}</ref> It shares the overall form of the minbar in Na'in<ref name=":6" /> and, like the latter, it also stands apart from other Iranian minbars in having a canopy.<ref name=":5" /> Its decoration is distinguished by a carpet-like geometric pattern filled with carvings of tendrils.<ref name=":5" />