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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023 Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
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Armenia and the Land of the Mazkut‘ (3rd–5th Centuries AD): Written Sources and Archaeological Data
Electrum, 2021 Since the early 4th century, ancient Armenian authors (P‘awstos Buzand, Movsēs Xorenac‘i, Agat‘angełos, Movsēs Dasxuranc‘i, the Ašxarac‘oyc) begin to mention the Land of the Mazk‘ut‘ (Arm. ašharh Mazk‘t‘acʻ), located in the East Caucasus.
Murtazali S. Gadjiev
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 380-404, August 2023., 2023 In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review
Geoarchaeology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 711-732, September/October 2022., 2022 Abstract Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. Ostracods are small crustaceans that live in almost all aquatic habitats, both natural and man‐made.
Ella Quante, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani
Middle East Policy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 79-93, Autumn (Fall) 2022., 2022 Abstract Iran’s armed forces have made tremendous strides since the decade‐long war with Iraq in the 1980s. Tehran’s cultivation of ideologically sympathetic forces, along with the provision of material help, has allowed Iran to project power and influence throughout the Middle East. Some policy analysts who study Iran’s military development are biased
Ahmed S. Hashim
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022 The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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Estakhr Project - Third preliminary report of the joint Mission of the Iranian center for archaeological research, the Parsa-Pasargadae research foundation and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy [PDF]
, 2016 This report presents the preliminary results of the study of the pottery collected during the excavation campaign carried out in 2012 in the framework of the joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Estakhr. The ceramic finds relate to a time span
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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2015 Perhaps no single historical occurrence looms larger in the imagining of contemporary Iranian identity than Islam’s rise and the ensuing widespread conversions on and around the Iranian plateau.
Samad Alavi
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