“Tabula Rasa” planning: creative destruction and building a new urban identity in Tehran [PDF]
, 2017 The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams, is presupposition of Modern Architecture.
Mehan, Asma
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Revival of Tradition or Innovation in Art:A Study of the Lithographs of Qajar Era in Hazrat-e Abdolazim Shrine Complex [PDF]
نگره, 2015 The complex of Hazrat-e Abdolazim shrine, in the ancient city of Ray, is a precious architectural treasure which was founded in the third century of Hijra and has been under development since.
Hassan Karimian +2 more
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Studying the Evolution of Painted Enamel Medallions with the Images of Kings and Princes during the Qajar Period (Fath Ali Shah until the End of Naser al-Din Shah's Era) [PDF]
نگره, 2023 The art of court iconography is one of the main arts of the Qajar era and can be seen in various arts of this era. One of the arts related to iconography, the combination of painting and jewelry, is painted in the form of enameled medallions which are ...
الهه Panjehbashi
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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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Water Resources Research, Volume 59, Issue 9, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Accurate prediction of physical alterations in carbonate reservoirs under dissolution is critical for development of subsurface energy technologies. The impact of mineral dissolution on flow characteristics depends on the connectivity and tortuosity of the pore network.
E. P. Thompson, B. R. Ellis
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An Analysis of the Visual Qualities of Two Narrative Curtains of Qajar Era (With an Emphasis on Similarities & Differences) [PDF]
Jilvah-i hunar, 2019 Curtain design is one of the common forms of textile design during the Qajar era. Knitting methods, types of dying designs, application of specific mediums for decoration, crochet works, the type of stories to be narrated and the place where the curtains
M. Mounesi Sorkheh +1 more
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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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Blank slate: squares and political order of city [PDF]
, 2016 This paper aims to analyze the square beyond an architectural element in the city, but weaves this blank slate, with its contemporary socio political atmosphere as a new paradigm.
Mehan, Asma
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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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Investigating tiles with Qajar women motifs in houses of Shiraz [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2014 The art of Qajar period includes many unique features and themes. One of the most exceptional features of Qajar artworks (painting on tiles) is women motifs depicted at semiprivate and private spaces, at houses of nobilities, and palaces.
Effat alsadat Afzal Tousi +2 more
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