The Reinvention of Padishah-i Islam in the Visual Representations of Ghazan Khan: (English Version) [PDF]
This article discusses how the visualization of Mahmud Ghazan, the sixth Ilkhanid ruler, was employed to construct and propagate his image as the Padishah-i Islam (King of Islam), thus justifying him both as king of Iranshahr (land of Iran) and the ...
Latifkar, Azade
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Pir Sultan Abdal : Encounters with persona in Alevi lyric song [PDF]
In his 1997 Nobel Prize lecture, Contra jogulatores obliquentes, Italian dramatist Dario Fo makes an oblique reference to a famous medieval Ottoman "jester."1 The "jester" is not mentioned by name but rather in the context of the murder of 35 artists and
Koerbin, Paul
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Techniques and Stylistic Characteristics of Stucco Decorations in Ilkhanid Architecture of Iran
Ilkhanid architecture occupies a distinctive position in the history of Islamic art through the development of highly elaborate stucco decoration. Despite their technical and artistic significance, these works have seldom been examined with respect to ...
Atefeh Shekofteh
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An Analytical View on the Stucco Decorations of Ilkhanid Religious Buildings: A Case Study of Pir-i Bakran, Isfahan, Iran [PDF]
Stucco decorations are among the major decorative elements of the religious structures of the Ilkhanid period in Iran.Typical examples of these decorations are found in the mausoleum of Pir-i Bakran, located some” 30 km” southwestof Isfahan. Owing to the
Mohammad Zarei +3 more
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Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]
International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
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The Effects of Ilkhanid's Marine Policy on International Trade at the end of Middle Ages [PDF]
The access to seas and high seas was one of the significant concerns of Iranian government's foreign policy during history. The geographical position of Iran- located two seas in north and south of it- provided a golden opportunity for Iranian government
ahmad fazlinejad
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Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century [PDF]
Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East and ...
Contadini, Anna
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Persian Legend on Islamic Coins : From Traditional Arabic to the Challenge of Leadership [PDF]
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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Iran or Persia : what's in a name, the decline and fall of a tourism industry? [PDF]
The future of tourism in Iran depends on the tenor of the government, whether it be Islamic traditionalist or Islamic liberalist. In Iran religion and politics are inescapably intertwined and inseparable, with the priority of religion over politics. This
Baum, T.G., O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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