| Stopping place | km from Isfahan | Details | Dating | CVS also called ‘ribat’ |
| Deh Namak | 441 | 17th century/Safavid CVS, inscription panel missing, restored in 1976-8. Second mud brick CVS, built after 1848, now in poor condition (Kleiss 1998 [K]: 85). | See details | |
| Abdalabad | 463 | Mud/mudbrick CVS: stylistically of multiple periods including Qajar. | ? | |
| Lasjird | 483 | 17th century/Safavid CVS, inscription panel missing, restored 1976 (K: 91-2). | ?C17 | |
| Simnan | 521 | 17th century/Safavid CVS, with recess for inscription, restored in 1977 (K: 93). | ?C17 | |
| Ribat-i Ahuan | 563 | Safavid CVS in relatively good condition. Kleiss says Abbasi, with inscription panel now missing (K: 96) – but Soheili [S] reports a Tuluth inscription, and dates the building to 1685 (Shah Soleiman). | 1685 | |
| Ribat-i Qusha | 602 | Falsafi reports Nuqtavi dervishes being shot in Qusha CVS in 1601. Kleiss says “probably” 17th century / Safavid (K p.101). D’Allemagne 1911: 182 reported CVS was “brand new” in around 1911, S says it was restored by a wealthy Qajar merchant. | See details | |
| Damghan | 640 | Kleiss lists two CVS, both probably Safavid (K p.103-4). Jackson 1911: 166-7 says that a ‘well-constructed’ CVS, while often attributed to Abbas, may actually be from the time of Ismail I. | ?Safavid | R |
| Deh-i Mulla | 722 | Kleiss says probably Safavid (K p.104). Still unrestored, but in relatively good condition. | ?Safavid | R |
| Bis [Badash] | 755 | Although the niche for an inscription panel over the entry is now empty, S reports that this panel at one time dated the CVS to 1645. Still unrestored. | 1645 | R |
| Mayamay | 816 | Safavid CVS in relatively good condition: with Tuluth inscription extant over main entrance. S says this states that the CVS was built by Amir Divan, in 1653 (Shah Abbas II). | 1653 | |
| Alhak | 879 | Undated CVS in poor condition. Kleiss (K: 122 and 124) suggests CVS is 17th century/Safavid. | ? | |
| Mazinan | 937 | Safavid CVS in relatively good condition. S says 3 stone inscriptions: see details in text (footnote 181). | 1663 | |
| Sabsevar | 1027 | Safavid CVS ?condition. | ||
| Ribat-i Do Dar | 1070 | The famous ‘golden’ CVS is in Zafaraniyya village (Herzfeld 1943: 22-3). | Seljuk | R |
| Kalidar | 1086 | Ruined CVS ?Safavid, but note octagonal shape. | S | R |
| Nishapur | 1141 | Safavid CVS: said to be Abbasi; recently restored and currently in use as a craft centre. | S | |
| Mashhad | 1231 |
For references see:
Babayan, K. 2003. Mystics, monarchs, and messiahs: cultural landscapes of early modern Iran, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
D’Allemagne, H.R. 1911. Du Khorassan au Pays des Backhtiaris. Trois mois de voyage en Perse, Paris, Hachette.
Herzfeld, E. 1943. “Damascus: Studies in Architecture: II”, Ars Islamica 10: 13-70
Kleiss, W. 1997. “Karawanenbauten in Iran. T2”, Berlin, Reimer.
Soheili, M. Undated electronic source. Caravansaries. Accessed via: http://www.caroun.com/Architecture/Caravansary/000-Caravansary.html on 20 March 2010