John Curtis. The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2016 A la suite de la presentation du Cylindre de Cyrus prete par le British Museum au Musee National d’Iran en 2010, cet objet celebre(supprimer « il ») a fait un grand « tour » aux USA tout au long de l’annee 2013. A cette occasion l’A., qui etait jusqu’alors keeper au BM et specialiste de la periode perse, a ecrit cet ouvrage. Il presente l’histoire de l’
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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The Most Important Performing Arts Arisen from \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e of Ferdowsi: \u3cem\u3eShahnameh-khani\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eNaqqali\u3c/em\u3e of \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Shahnameh of Ferdowsi is the Iranian national epic, which reflects the history, cultural values, sense of nationhood, and ancient religions of Persia by the only use of Persian pure words in the age of Arabic influence on the literature and science ...
Jahandideh, Mitra, Khaefi, Shahab
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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Relations between the Safavids and the Mughals of India [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2007 Possessing the same ethnic and historical roots, Iranians and Indians have held relations with each other since ancient times. Towards the beginning of the 10th century A.H.
Fatemeh Sarkhil
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversion and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History [PDF]
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
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A Northwest Semitic Curse Formula: The Sefire Treaty and Deuteronomy 28
, 2016 While a great deal of scholarly investigation has focused on parallels between biblical curses and imprecations found in Neo-Assyrian Treaties, the curses in the Aramaic treaty of Sefire have garnered relatively less attention.¹ In recent years there has
Ramos, Melissa
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Law of Contracts in Late Antique Persia
ReligionsThe article is about private law contracts and their social, economic, and religious background in Sasanian Persia (224–651) before the advent of Islam.
Janos Jany
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