Exploring the Designs of the Seljuk and Ilkhanid Luster Ceramics and Metal Containers and Reflecting the Social Life of That Era [PDF]
In the mid-Islamic centuries that culminated in the advancement of arts, pottery also moved into other artistic arenas, as a basis for artistic revitalization, to compete with the industry of making vessels of gold and silver, and the potters of this ...
Ebrahim R, Davood Pakbaz Kataj
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THE PHENOMENON ŠILTĀQĀT AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN THE ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MILIEU [PDF]
Since the end of the XIV century, in official documents and written sources on the history of the Ilkhanate, the term šiltāqāt is often found, the meaning of which is still not fully understood.
GOR MARGARYAN
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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IN THE FOLDS OF TIME: RASHĪD AL‐DĪN ON THEORIES OF HISTORICITY
ABSTRACT By focusing on Rashīd al‐Dīn's (d. 718/1318) historiographical oeuvre and here in particular his “History of the World,” this article challenges the usual approach to his Jāmiʿ al‐tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) and argues that his was a deeply pluralistic enterprise in a world with many centers, tremendous demographic change, high social ...
JUDITH PFEIFFER
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Seljuk Muqarnas along the Silk Road [PDF]
The film Seljuk Muqarnas along the Silk Road gives an overview of muqarnas, stalactite vaults, in Seljuk style architecture (1038-1194). The muqarnas are located in portals and niches of caravansaraies, madrassas and mosques. Starting with the Sultan Han
Harmsen, Silvia +2 more
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A Comparative Study of Horse Images in Iranian Paintings (Ilkhānid Period) and Chinese Art (Song and Yuan Periods) [PDF]
The Mongol invasion of Iran [551-663 H] laid the foundation of an integrated empire from far east Asia to east Europe and led to the formation of the so-called Ilkhānid dynasty and the decline of Persian Empire.
Bahareh Moayeri +2 more
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On the Origins of the Shrine of ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz: The Case for a Revised Chronology [PDF]
This article proposes a re-examination of the phases of construction and decoration at the shrine of ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz and demonstrates that the core fabric and elements of architectural revetments of the shrine are datable to the Seljuq period ...
Grbanovic, Ana Marija, McClary, Richard
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Dash Kasan; an imperial architecture in the Mongol capital of Sultaniyya [PDF]
By the time of Kublai’s death, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires including the Golden Horde [Kipchak] in the northwest, the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the Ilkhanate, based in modern-day Iran, and the Yuan ...
Moradi, Amin
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No evidence for an early seventeenth-century Indian sighting of Keplers supernova (SN1604) [PDF]
In a recent paper Sule et al. (Astronomical Notes, vol. 332 (2011), 655) argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius with a dragon-headed tail indicated that the bright supernova of 1604 was also sighted by Indian ...
van Gent, Robert H.
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Between Tradition and Innovation : the Art of Ilkhanid Stucco Revetments in Iran [PDF]
Carved stucco is the architectural revetment medium par excellence in Iran; its history began in Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian times, gained paramount significance in the Early Islamic, Seljuq and Ilkhanid periods and experienced a revival under the ...
Grbanovic, Ana Marija
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