I'm currently researching a novel that I'd like to set during the mid to later years of the Safavid Dynasty, around 1680, in Isfahan, Iran (or Persia, technically). I'm really struggling to understand what the city would have looked like around that time. I know enough about bigger landmarks like mosques and palaces, but I honestly have no idea what an average person's home would look like or how they would interact with landmarks like the Imam/Shah mosque, for example.

I love archaeology and art history and I've been doing a lot of research but I just keep getting stuck! It seems like there really isn't much historical information on "normal people" in areas like Iran/Persia. Basically, all that I've found is a few sketches of the city by Europeans that date to 1673 at the very earliest.

Some basic questions:

• How would roads be organized?
• Would certain sectors of the city be specifically inhabited by different people? I know the Circassians, Armenians, etc lived in certain areas, but what about divisions by class?
• What did an everyday home look like? What about a store? Where did people buy food and clothing?

This may not be the right subreddit for this question, but if anyone has input let me know! Honestly, if you could just direct me to a good book to read, a website with the right info, or a different subreddit that would be wonderful!

I'm not an expert, but I've fallen in love with this area/time period recently so please be gentle if I've messed up some details. I want to get this right and make the real historians proud :)