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Formation of Geometric Patterns in the Architectural Decoration: An Investigation on the Ilkhanids’ Period

open access: yesJournal of History Culture and Art Research, 2019
The Ilkhanids made considerable changes in their ancestors’ legacy after capturing Iran caused the creation of complex geometric patterns. Exhaustive research has been undertaken about the features of decoration of this era; however, the raised question is how this progress could have happened in spite of slaughtering or secluding the artists.
Fatemeh Rajabi, Molood Khosravi
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Reframing the Mongols in 1260 : the Armenians, the Mongols and the Magi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The irruption of the Mongols led to profound changes in the political, cultural and confessional climate of the thirteenth-century Near East. While many did not survive the initial onslaught and the years of turmoil that followed, and rulers that opposed
Stewart, Angus
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The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü and Abaqa: Mongol overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Il s'agit de l'avant dernière épreuve avant publicationInternational audienceThis paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans' letters, and with the question of their authenticity and the intervention of the Christians of the Bilād al-Shām.
Aigle, Denise
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On the Origins of the Shrine of ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz: The Case for a Revised Chronology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
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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Between Tradition and Innovation : the Art of Ilkhanid Stucco Revetments in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
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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Dash Kasan; an imperial architecture in the Mongol capital of Sultaniyya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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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A Preliminary Report of Excavations at Aveh Plain, Islamic Period [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2013
Aveh archaeological site, which has prepared the necessary background for the archaeological studiesafter having been identified and registered, is located in Saveh Plain, and it is one of the less-known sitesin the Iranian Central Plateau.
Arash Lashkari   +2 more
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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The Political and Diplomatic Relations of the Mamluks and Golden Horde After the Third Enthronement of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad

open access: yesTarih Dergisi, 2022
The relations between the states of the Mamluks and the Golden Horde aimed at common interests were shaped and developed around the discourse of the common enemy.
Kazım Uzun
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Pir Sultan Abdal : Encounters with persona in Alevi lyric song [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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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