Persian Legend on Islamic Coins : From Traditional Arabic to the Challenge of Leadership [PDF]
, 2010 The tradition of placing Persian inscriptions on Islamic coins goes back to the middle of the 7th century AD, namely the time of the “righteous” caliphs ‛Uthman and ‛Ali, when silver and copper coins struck in the eastern provinces of the recently ...
Nastich, Vladimir
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The Sasanian Tradition in ʽAbbāsid Art : squinch fragmentation as The structural origin of the muqarnas [PDF]
, 2016 Islamic architecture presents a three-dimensional decoration system known as muqarnas. An original system created in the Near East between the second/eighth and the fourth/tenth centuries due to the fragmentation of the squinche, but it was in the fourth/
Carrillo, Alicia
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Historical giants : forefathers of modern hospitality and tourism [PDF]
, 2010 When tourism began and who the first the first tourists were is a question that many have tried to answer only to end up looking naive when new discoveries have proved their theories wrong. However, it is safe to say that it did not all start with Thomas
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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A city and its landscape across time: Samarkand in the ancient Sogdiana (Uzbekistan) [PDF]
, 2017 Located in the heartland of Central Asia, Samarkand has always been an economic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious hub along the ancient Silk Road.
Mantellini, S.
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The image of historical figures in kazakh literature [PDF]
, 2016 Kazakh literature is rich for writers who wrote fiction about the famous historical figures. Each year, besides legends and folk tales which survived until nowadays a lot of fiction works are written.
Abdigapbarova (Абдигапбарова), Zhanar (Жанар) +1 more
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The miner and the manuscripts [PDF]
, 1987 Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 120-Saraylarİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN ...
Lawton, John
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Humanities in transition: Liberation of knowledge in Central Asia and the potential role of the European Union [PDF]
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Jonboboev, Sunatullo
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Yang Liangyao's Mission of 785 to the Caliph of Baġdād: evidence of an early Sino-Arabic power alliance? [PDF]
, 2015 The primary focus of this article is the information provided in a tomb stele (shendao zhi bei 神道之碑) of a Chinese eunuch, a certain Yang Liangyao 楊良瑤 (736–806), that will be comparatively analysed against the background of the political landscape under ...
Schottenhammer, Angela
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Orientalisms in the interpretation of Islamic philosophy [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper, I argue that Edward Said’s central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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Amlākdārs, Khwājas and Mulk land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is a revision and correction of Chapter 3 of my 2008 monograph ('Russian Rule in Samarkand') in which I made a number of errors and misjudgements.
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
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