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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Portrayal of Iranian Identity in the Literary The Role of Names in Ancient Persia [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2018 Names have always been the most important factor for giving identity to and distinguishing people in a society. The selection of a name not only shows the persons' attitude to society and nature, but also reveals their religious thought.
vahid rooyani, Morteza Niazi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Gerión, 2006 Two words would summarize what characterized the religious policy during the two centuries of the Achaemenid Empire: tolerance and party utilization.
Israel Campos Méndez
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Historical geography of the city Amed and its place in the relations of Iran and Rome in the Sassanid era [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2018 The ancient writers, as well as new historical research of ancient, historical geography and the urban structure and urban areas and cities of the ancient reigns do not give much information about the cities .
parviz hossein talayee
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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L. Khatchadourian, Imperial Matter. Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires, Oakland (2016) [PDF]
, 2018 Gondet Sébastien. L. Khatchadourian, Imperial Matter. Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires, Oakland (2016). In: Topoi, volume 22/2, 2018. pp.
Gondet, Sébastien
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Aigle perse Matt Waters, Ancient Persia. A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE, 2014 [PDF]
, 2015 Biondi Ennio. Aigle perse Matt Waters, Ancient Persia. A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE, 2014. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 41, n°2, 2015. pp.
Biondi, Ennio
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Persia and kingship in William Cartwright's The Royall Slave (1636) [PDF]
, 2014 The recent reorientation of early modern studies draws attention to the Renaissance stage as a site of exploration of images of the Islamic world. This article examines the use of ancient and contemporary Persia in William Cartwright’s The Royall Slave ...
Houston, Chloe
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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