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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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Recognizing the Art of Court Portrait Painting by Mozaffar ad-DinShah in the late Qajar Period [PDF]

پیکره, 2023
Problem Definition: The Art of Court Portrait Painting is one of the Main arts of the Qajar Period, Which Continued Until the Period of Muzaffar al-Din Shah.
Elaheh Panjeh Bashi
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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories, however, suffer, respectively, from essentialism, circularity and aporia, manifest in their common inability to digest the Janus‐like character of nations, that is, their display of
Kamran Matin, Jahangir Mahmoudi
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]

, 2016
(Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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Local ecological knowledge provides novel evidence on threats and declines for the Caucasian grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi in Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve, Iran

People and Nature, Volume 4, Issue 6, Page 1536-1546, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The Caucasian grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi, one of the most poorly known species of grouse, is experiencing population declines associated with multiple threats. Evaluating species' population status in relation to different local human activities is important to inform conservation and identify suitable management methods, but determining ...
Sajad Ghanbari, Samuel T. Turvey
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The Study of Men’s Clothing Decorations in Qajar Era [PDF]

پیکره, 2016
The history of applying ornamentations to clothes and dresses in Iran dates back to Pre-Islamic era. With appearance of Islam, however, the kind and material of ornamentations, especially for men, changed.
Elaheh Saleh
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Russian terrorism in Tehran: a Qajar Princes’ letters during the “Minor Tyranny” of 1908 [PDF]

, 2017
During the Minor Tyranny of 1908, a daughter of Naser al-Din Shah named Malakeh-ye Iran suffered the indignity of having her house in Tehran plundered when the autocratic Shah attempted to re-assert control over the newly won powers of the democratic ...
Ridgeon, Lloyd
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Who Was a Bahā’ī in the Upper Echelons of Qājār Iran?

Religions, 2023
This paper addresses two questions: first, that of the nature of multiple religious identities in a traditional society; second, that of who can be identified as Bahā’īs in the upper echelons of Qājār Iran.
Moojan Momen
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Towards a critical geopolitics of China–US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections

Area, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 638-645, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The deterioration of bilateral relations between the US and China heralds a new chapter in geopolitics increasingly characterised by competition and confrontation. We introduce insights from contemporary Cold War historiography, which we suggest can help deepen our understanding of the present.
Seth Schindler, Jessica DiCarlo
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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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