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XVII. NISHAPUR, THE HOME OF OMAR KHAYYAM

2001
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Why Nishapur?

Eurasian Studies, 2018
AbstractGiven the high cost of premodern land transport, inland cities not serviced by any sort of water transport were quite rare before the appearance of motorized vehicles. The emergence of Nishapur in northeastern Iran as the Abbasid caliphate’s second largest metropolis, with a population over 150,000 in the year 1000, thus presents a problem ...
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[465-85/1065-85], Building at Nishapur

1991
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The Seljuq conquest(s) of Nishapur: A reappraisal

Iranian Studies, 2005
Nishapur, the center of Khurasan, was taken twice by the Seljuqs in the first years of their advance into Iran: First in Sha‘bān 429/May 1038,1 after they had defeated a Ghaznavid army under Subash...
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Samanid Stucco Decoration from Nishapur

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1938
OUR KNOWLEDGE of early Islamic art in Iran has been greatly increased through the excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, conducted since 1935 at Nishapur, in the province of Khurasan.1 The importance of Nishapur for the Islamic culture is well known to every historian.
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Sufi Organizations and Structures of Authority in Medieval Nishapur

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1994
My aim here is to revise a common view of the development of Sufi organizations and practices. Sufis have generally been contrasted with the ulema to suggest that Sufism and law were incompatible and even hostile to each other: the elaboration and guardianship of Islamic law (fiqh) was the concern of the ulema; the inner, experiential dimension of ...
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The Politics of Heresy in Medieval Khurasan: The Karramiyya in Nishapur

Iranian Studies, 1994
In 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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Scholars of Nishapur, 700-1225

2013
The main purpose of this work is to present short biographical accounts of the lives of the scholars who were either natives of or visitors to Nishapur from the beginning of the eighth century to the first quarter of the thirteenth century. The content of the work can best be illustrated by a brief account of the method chosen to present it.
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Identification of microstructure and chemical composition of a silver object from Shahrak-e Firouzeh, Nishapur, Iran (~2nd millennium BC)

Surfaces and Interfaces, 2021
Javad Tayyari
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Nishapur

2021
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