Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Social History Studies 2383-0484 7 1 2017 04 19 The Study of Islamic Architectural Components in Ilkhanid Era, a Socio-historical Perspective: ( Ilkhanid Era: Architect and Architects’ Guild, Guild Supervisor, Supporters and Founders) The Study of Islamic Architectural Components in Ilkhanid Era, a Socio-historical Perspective: ( Ilkhanid Era: Architect and Architects’ Guild, Guild Supervisor, Supporters and Founders) 57 84 2435 10.30465/shc.2017.2435 FA Gholamreza Jamaleddin MA in Iranian Architecture, Art University, Isfahan Ahmad Salehi Kakhaki Associate professor of Archeology department Journal Article 2016 08 15 <span>An architectural work is a chain linking political, cultural, and societal components of each era. The architect, supporters and founders, supervisors, and conventional and religious rules and regulations can have their own influence on a work. The social history is a branch of history which can examine these issues along with the role of groups in the process of creating an architectural work. Adopting such an approach to assess the Iranian Islamic architecture, in this article we address Ilkhanid era and its texts to discover architects’ social status and architects’ guild in this era as well as the degree of autonomy of their supervisors, supporters and founders. The findings of this study revealed four groups of architects in different social statuses, supervision, and extended latitude held by municipal officers of architects’ guild and urban construction plus a vast range of public and governmental supporters and founders with diverse social statuses.</span> <span>An architectural work is a chain linking political, cultural, and societal components of each era. The architect, supporters and founders, supervisors, and conventional and religious rules and regulations can have their own influence on a work. The social history is a branch of history which can examine these issues along with the role of groups in the process of creating an architectural work. Adopting such an approach to assess the Iranian Islamic architecture, in this article we address Ilkhanid era and its texts to discover architects’ social status and architects’ guild in this era as well as the degree of autonomy of their supervisors, supporters and founders. The findings of this study revealed four groups of architects in different social statuses, supervision, and extended latitude held by municipal officers of architects’ guild and urban construction plus a vast range of public and governmental supporters and founders with diverse social statuses.</span> http://socialhistory.ihcs.ac.ir/article_2435_b6c2fe15682bb7cd710a4f92fae84a80.pdf