Erga-Logoi, 2020 The relationship between Thomas Preston’s early Elizabethan tragedy Cambises (printed 1569) and the Book III of Herodotus’ Histories has often been downplayed, owing to the lack of printed editions or translations of Herodotus in England at the time and ...
Francesco Dall'Olio
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Naim Frashëri and His Prominent Works in Turkish and Persian Literature
Şarkiyat Mecmuası, 2023 Literary developments have always been influenced by historical, social, and political developments. The first interaction between nations in the Balkan geography started with language in the 14th century and continued with culture, tradition, and ...
Şerife Yerdemir
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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]
, 2009 Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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The Evolution of Iran as a National State
Belleten, 1975 The Persian Empire, the foundation of which by Cyrus the Great we are now celebrating, was dissolved as the result of the Greek invasion under Alexander; it was restored, some five and a half centuries later, by the native ...
John Andrew Boyle
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Britain’s decision to withdraw from the Persian Gulf: a pattern not a puzzle [PDF]
, 2015 The reasons for the British decision to withdraw from the Gulf are highly contentious. While some scholars have focused on short-term considerations, especially the devaluation of sterling towards the end of 1967, in the British determination to quit the
Smith, Simon C.
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Pages from the history of the Sassanid state Through the manuscript (Al.Faraaid Al.Muntaqaa min Tarikh Sahib Hama by Badr al-Din bin Habib al-Shami al-Halabi) [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية, 2022 This research explores the kings of the Sassanid state in the history of the ancient Persians, which was abundant with many human and civilizational gatherings that were inhabited at the time or that were displaced from Central Asia, and in turn ...
Sarab M . Saleh, Iftikhar .Al-Akidi
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Postawa chrześcijan Kościoła perskiego w czasie prześladowań Szapura II
Vox Patrum, 2012 The subject of this article deals with Persian Christians in the period of the persecution of Shapur II. The ruler derived from the Sassanid dynasty had governed the Persian Empire since 309 to 379 and on that time of his reign Sassanid Empire saw its ...
Wojciech Teister, Andrzej Uciecha
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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Pre-Islamic religious motifs (550 BC to 651 AD) on Iranian minor art with focus on rug motifs
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 This article reviewed the influence of pre-Islamic religions such as Mithraism and Zoroastrianism on decorative elements of ancient Persian rugs. The article then evaluated the effect of the Islamic religion on Persian rugs.
Abouali Ladan, Jake Kaner
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The Persian “Trace” in Ivan Bunin’s Prose: “The Shadow of a Bird” (the Source Studies Aspect) [PDF]
Литературный фактThe article examines the problem of the Persian “trace” in Ivan Bunin’s prose from the point of view of source studies using the example of the travel essay Shadow of the Bird (1907).
Anton V. Bakuntsev
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