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From heaven to earth: the rise of ulema as landowners during the Qajar Persia
British Journal of Middle Eastern StudiesThis article examines the transformation of landownership and the means of coercion during the Qajar Era in Persia, focusing on the rise of the Usuli ulema as key economic and political players.
Alireza Khazaei
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Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Razzāq Faġfurī: Master of Persian Tilework in the Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Period
Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim WorldMīrzā ʿAbd al-Razzāq Faġfurī was the most prolific tile-painting artist in Shiraz of the late Qajar and early Pahlavi periods. Exercising a great influence on subsequent tile artists, he became an identification figure of Qajar narrative tilework and ...
Atefeh Seyed Mousavi
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St. Petersburg University Studies in Social Sciences & Humanities
The collection of the Oriental Department of the Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University has over 600 Persian manuscripts. Among them are two illustrated copies of ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami’s (1414–1492) poem “Yusuf and Zulaikha”.
S. Choriev
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The collection of the Oriental Department of the Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University has over 600 Persian manuscripts. Among them are two illustrated copies of ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami’s (1414–1492) poem “Yusuf and Zulaikha”.
S. Choriev
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Iranian Studies, 2001
The Qajar rock reliefs are without doubt an anachronistic group of monuments in Iranian art. An expression of royal power in pre-Islamic Iran, with the emergence of Islam, they more or less disappeared. The reason is obvious—they were representing human beings in a demonstrative, outgoing fashion. But even more important was their public character.
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The Qajar rock reliefs are without doubt an anachronistic group of monuments in Iranian art. An expression of royal power in pre-Islamic Iran, with the emergence of Islam, they more or less disappeared. The reason is obvious—they were representing human beings in a demonstrative, outgoing fashion. But even more important was their public character.
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Examining religious scholars' fatwas for Iranian Shiites during the Qajar period
Journal of Social-Political Studies of Iran's Culture and HistoryOne of the periods of prominent and influential presence of scholars among the people of Iran is the Qajar era. With the rule of the Qajars in Iran, another stage of developments in Iran's history will take place and a new chapter of political and social
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Iranian Studies, 2014
The history of children in general and that of Persian children in particular is that of the inarticulate. The social history of Iran is a neglected field although in recent decades a preponderance of material has appeared on the history of women. Aside from this no work has been undertaken on the private life of the period including childhood and ...
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The history of children in general and that of Persian children in particular is that of the inarticulate. The social history of Iran is a neglected field although in recent decades a preponderance of material has appeared on the history of women. Aside from this no work has been undertaken on the private life of the period including childhood and ...
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Iranian Studies, 2007
Social life in Qajar Iran was segregated by both gender and class. Parallel to social life were social pastimes and amusements which were generally segregated in the same manner. Foreign travelers to Iran, in true Orientalist fashion, frequently mention that people had few amusements.
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Social life in Qajar Iran was segregated by both gender and class. Parallel to social life were social pastimes and amusements which were generally segregated in the same manner. Foreign travelers to Iran, in true Orientalist fashion, frequently mention that people had few amusements.
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The Qajar dynasty, founded by Muhammad Khan (r. 1789–1797), ruled over modern-day Iran and parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia during the nineteenth century until it was replaced by the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925, when Reza Shah (r. 1925–1941) was declared the new king by the Parliament (Majlis). Seven kings, all
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Introduction to Entertainment in Qajar Persia
Iranian Studies, 2007As far as written records and oral traditions indicate, entertainment in the Qajar era touched on all aspects of life, both public and private. Contrary to Western opinion about this period, Qajar society exhibited a great variety of entertainments, many of which (even when public) were not visible to the outsider, given the constraints of a strongly ...
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Abstract Beginning the early nineteenth century, Iran under the new Qajar dynasty was embroiled in European diplomacy because of its geographic location between Russia and British India. As a buffer state, it was able to remain sovereign, maintain a diplomatic presence on the world scene, and sign treaties with other powers.
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