Marriage to immediate relatives (MIR) in Shahnameh and Its Background in Pahlavi Texts [PDF]
This kind of Marriage (MIR) is one of the controversial issues of Pre-Islamic Iran. Some have attributed it to all Iranians while others have attributed it to a certain group in ancient Iran.
Hossein Heidari, Mohadeseh GHasempoor
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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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How to maintain sustainable consumer behaviours: A systematic review and future research agenda
Abstract Maintaining sustainable consumer behaviours is necessary for both mitigating environmental problems and the success of sustainable businesses. However, to date, the focus is mainly on the motivation‐adoption link (i.e., how to motivate sustainable consumer behaviours) rather than the adoption‐continuance link (i.e., how to maintain those ...
Sayed Elhoushy, SooCheong (Shawn) Jang
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Years of life lost to revolution and war in Iran
Abstract How was life expectancy in Iran affected by the Islamic Revolution and subsequent war with Iraq? This study examines the joint effect of regime change and the war against Iraq on life expectancy in Iran between 1978 and 1988. If there had been no revolution and war in Iran, how would the life expectancy of Iranians have developed?
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
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Nazism and Women: Reflection of Nazi Attitudes toward Women in the Weekly Newspaper “Nameh Iran Bastan” [PDF]
In the contemporary world, women have been considered in a variety of ways, including as a subject for the propagation of modernism, religious traditionalism, and as a criterion for the development of citizenship rights.
Shahram Gholami
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Consequences of Prebendal State in Iran in Second Pahlavi Era [PDF]
The view that education should be in accordance with the ideals and goals of Prebendal state as one of examples of corrupt states is a type of state that in which power elites and government agents demand rights in excess of their rights at the level of ...
Mahboube Hemmati, Morteza Alavian
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The Persian Prose and Contemporary Discourses: A Proposed Periodization for Contemporary Persian Prose Based on the Influences of Modernity [PDF]
The present paper investigates the history of the development of the Persian prose in the recent past one hundred years. The main purpose of this research is to provide a brief history of the contemporary Persian prose, based on the definition of ...
Abdolrasoul Shakeri
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Structural Analysis on the Overthrow of the Second Pahlavis [PDF]
Purpose:The main goal of this article is to provide an answer to the question as to why the second Pahlavi government became vulnerable and paved the path for the Islamic revolution.
Ali Morshedizad, Saleh Zamani
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The BBC Persian Service and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 [PDF]
This paper is the second part of a work in progress that examines the impact of seventy years of BBC Persian broadcasts to Iran. The Persian Service, established in December 1940, was originally set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as one ...
Sreberny, Annabelle, Torfeh, Massoumeh
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Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
This is a proposal to encode Inscriptional Parthian and Inscriptional Pahlavi in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The scripts were published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Everson, Michael, Pournader, Roozbeh
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