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Nashtifan Windmills in their Environmental Context, Khurasan, Iran
Vernacular Architecture, 2019Focusing on Nashtifan windmills in Razavi Khurasan Province, Iran, the present paper examines these structures in their physical and natural context.
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Notes on the Ethnology of Khurasan
The Geographical Journal, 1926TWO principal factors were continually at work in the evolution of the Persian ethnical type. The first was the periodic admixture of races of different stocks during the numerous wars and invasions, frequently combined with the depopulation and devastation of large areas. The second, perhaps the more powerful of the two, was the unceasing migration of
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The Shaykh al-Islam in Medieval Khurasan
Afghanistan, 2018The shaykh al-Islam emerged in early Islamic Khurasan. A shaykh al-Islam's social-political roles developed organically, and his duties were exogenous to state bureaucracies. The Seljuq vizier, Niẓām al-Mulk, struck upon a “brilliant and original” scheme, to use the shaykh al-Islam to shape Islamic curricula and control lecturers.
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Chapter 1 (years 615/1218 to 676/1278). How eastern Persia-the lands congruent with eastern Iran and most of Afghanistan-came to experience the wrath of the Mongols. Included is Table 1.1, “A Chronological Guide to the Mongol Invasions of Khurasan and Transoxiana, 615/1218 to 619/1222,” with dates for the known attacks on cities and settlements.
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The Politics of Heresy in Medieval Khurasan: The Karramiyya in Nishapur
Iranian Studies, 1994In the history of the medieval Middle East, Khurasan deserves special attention for a number of reasons. After the collapse of the ‘Abbasid Empire by the middle of the tenth century, local regimes and new elites replaced central governmental control throughout the provinces of the old empire.
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