Samanid material culture and identity formation in Post-Soviet Tajikistan [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis investigates the Samanids (819-1005 CE), an Early Islamic, Central Asian dynasty, as subjects and objects of identity formation. It examines their complex material cultural heritage and the role this may have played in synthesising their pre ...
Hughes, Katherine
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Representation of space and form in illustrations and buildings in Timurid Central Asia [PDF]
, 1991 Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-114).This study attempts to explore a number of questions about the use of an architectural language in Timurid and Safavid ...
Yazar, Hatice
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The oriental elements in English poetry (1784-1859) [PDF]
, 1934 The influence of the Orient on English poets of the Romantic Revival, though perhaps not so deep and important, as on their German and French contemporaries, has been found significant enough to merit a study. Miss M.P.
Husain, Imdad
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The aesthetics of history in the modern English long poem: David Jones’s the anathemata. Basil bunting's briggflatts, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns and Roy fisher's a furnace [PDF]
, 1998 David Jones, Basil Bunting, Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher are major poets in the modernist tradition who have written long poems which incorporate and interrogate history. The Anathemata. Briggflatts.
Wootten, William George
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Orientalist themes and English verse in nineteenth-century India [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis demonstrates how a specific tradition of English poetry written by Indians in the nineteenth-century borrowed its subject matter from Orientalist research into Indian antiquity, and its style and forms from the English poetic tradition. After
Chaudhuri, Rosinka, Chaudhuri, Rosinka.
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'Veneto-Saracenic' metalwork. [PDF]
, 1989 2 volsAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:D89250 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited ...
Auld, Sylvia
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran [PDF]
, 2005 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-632).Beginning in 1922, under the auspices of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran, the tombs of selected historical figures were ...
Grigor, Talinn, 1972-
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Naqqāli and Ferdowsi: Creativity in the Iranian National Tradition [PDF]
, 1977 not ...
Page, Mary Ellen
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Great Seljuks in Turkish historiography [PDF]
, 2003 The aim of this thesis is to present for the first time in English the corpus of Turkish scholarly writing on the Great Seljuks and to assess the internal consistency of the individual conclusions.
Başan, Osman Aziz
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries [PDF]
, 2007 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-414).This dissertation investigates the sudden proliferation of mausolea in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh ...
Michailidis, Melanie
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