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The origin of the Qajar Shah dynasty according to their Y-DNA
The subject of the study was the genealogy of the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran in 1795-1925. Documentary sources indicate Gara Piri bey Qajar (XV century – 1513), the first beglyarbek of Karabakh with the center in Ganja (now Azerbaijan) as the earliest ancestor of the dynasty.
Akper Aliev +4 more
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
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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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations
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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Examining the Position of the Storyteller and the Court Rituals Related to it during the History of Oral Literature in Iran (until the Qajar Period) [PDF]
The Court of kings and dynasties were manifestation of ceremonial customs and occasions which pertain to the roots of literature and history of their nations.
najmeh noroozi chegini +2 more
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani
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
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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This study is about an analysis of the content that tries to identify weaknesses of Persian‐English translation in the tourism industry and show the most common and fairly frequent error patterns committed by Iranian translators who are nonnative by using Napu model.
Bahar Pourshahian +2 more
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The Reasons of Farhad Mirza Motamed al-Dolah’s Governing in Kurdistan and its Outcomes (1867– 1874) [PDF]
When the Ardalan Dynasty came to power, the Kurdistan Province of Iran came under the sovereignty of Bani Ardalan. The rulers there regulated their relations with the central government in a way to maintain their independence in the form of a local ...
Jahanbakhsh Savagheb, Parastoo Mozaffari
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The Effect of Ethnic Gap on the Transformations Leading to the Persian Constitution in Iran [PDF]
The purpose of the present study is to answer this question: what has been the impact of ethnic gap in the Qajar dynasty on the transformation process leading to the Persian Constitution?
Mohammad Ali Alizadeh +2 more
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