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Bargoushes and Barchashm in Shahnameh and Pahlavi Texts and Comparing them with Gog and Magog in Islamic Traditions [PDF]

open access: yesمتن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2018
The present article analyzes some Pahlavi and Persian sources such as Asouric Tree, Bondehesh, Ayatkari Zamaspik (keep sake), Shahnameh, and also some dictionaries.
Ali Basiripour
doaj   +1 more source

The BBC Persian Service and the Islamic Revolution of 1979 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper is the second part of a work in progress that examines the impact of seventy years of BBC Persian broadcasts to Iran. The Persian Service, established in December 1940, was originally set up by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as one ...
Sreberny, Annabelle, Torfeh, Massoumeh
core   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Policies of the Second Pahlavi regarding Industry, with an Emphasis on the Relations between Iran and Germany (1961-1978) [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی, 2017
After ascending to the throne, Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi tried to approximate the face of Iran to that of European countries dramatically. Meanwhile, impressive increase of oil price became the trump card in the hand of the second Pahlavi governments ...
Ali Vashmeh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article examines seemingly monotheistic, polytheistic and dualistic features of Zoroastrianism from the point of view of the Zoroastrian creation myth.
Ahn   +78 more
core   +1 more source

National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 414-425, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
wiley   +1 more source

Two New Pahlavi Inscriptions from Fars Province, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
First edition of two previously unknown Middle Persian inscriptions from the region of Fars in ...
Asadi, Ali, Cereti, Carlo G.
core  

Analysis of the Relationships Between Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable Development and Organizational Results: An Empirical Study

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 279-298, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study aims to determine whether the practices companies carry out to contribute to the SDGs have an impact on sustainable development and influence their performance. It also seeks to establish whether sustainable development enables companies to improve their business results.
Juan Antonio Giménez Espín   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pahlavi Kurdish Language (Feyli) “The official language of the Sassanid empire or a regional dialect”

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020
The Pahlavi Kurdish language that nowadays has known as the Feyli Kurdish, is one of the oldest dialects of the Kurdish language, which has been changed and evolved from the official language of the state to a dialect of a region.
Farhad Azeez Hasan
doaj   +1 more source

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