‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 578-598, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
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Comparative Aesthetics of Religious Murals (Karbala Event) in Imamzadeh of Zeyd and Tekyeh of Moaven al-Molk in Interaction with Ta'ziyeh [PDF]
نگره, 2018 Religious mural in the sense of Shiite art, with the centerpiece of the Imams of religion, especially Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions with a few hundred years of history, is one of the most important types of Iranian wall art, which culminated in ...
Nastaran Norouzi, Abolghasem Dadvar
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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Historical Sociology of Qajar Royal Wall Paintings [PDF]
Parseh Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2020 Gholamreza Rahmani, Mehdi Hosseini
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An Intertextual Survey on Dual Oppositions in the Maqouee Palace Mural (Iranian and European Sofreh) [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2018 The process of getting acquaintance with European culture which had begun in 18th century in Iran reached to its critical summit in 19th century (Qajar era).
maryam lari
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 217-239, March 2025.Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
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Study of the Features and Structure of the Embellishments of Facades in Tiled Buildings in Shiraz [PDF]
نگره, 2018 The Qajar era is one of the glorious periods of Iranian architecture, in which the doors are one of the topics used mainly for the decoration of the building.
Elahe PanjehBashi, fatemeh doulab
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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Analytical and Comparative Study of Bird motifs in Paintings of Flowers and Birds Lotfali Shirazi [PDF]
نگره, 2016 This study shows that the art works of painting flowers and birds along the Safavid and Zand is located at the previous edition. The visual elements of art to organize his own identity and culture.
Elaheh PanjehBashi
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