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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Transition of Classification Patterns of Ancient Iran History in Qajar Era [PDF]

تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2018
Qajar era was a period which academic historical researches translated from European languages to Persian and archaeological excavations in Iran besides deciphering ancient inscriptions by European orientalists and Iranologists took place.
Reza Ordou
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the image of angels in painting of Qajar period

پیکره, 2014
The good and evil issues have always busied the human's mind. The image of angels as the most important symbol of goodness has many applications in the literature on the mythologic, epic, religious and vulgar subjects before and after  Islam. The images of angels have greatly changed  over time from the visual aspect.
Safarzadeh, Naghmeh, Ahmadi, Bahram
openaire   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

Socio-Political Phenomenon of Changes in Citizenship in Guilan Province in Qajar Era [PDF]

پژوهش های تاریخی
During the Qajar era, Iran's growing engagement with foreign nations led to Guilan being designated as a border territory, primarily due to its unique geographical conditions.
Mahdi Ebadi, Zoleykha Ghaffari roodsari
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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
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations

Annals of Human Genetics, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 259-277, May 2024.
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi, Zahra Hayatmehr, Balázs Egyed, Mahmood Tavallaei, Anna Szécsényi‐Nagy   +4 more
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The Effect of Social and Cultural Evolutions in Safavid and Qajar Dynasties on Women's Portraiture and Iconography [PDF]

زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2019
In the Safavid and Qajar dynasties, due to the relationship of Iran with the West, the desire of the court to experience the modern world and the desire of the Western world to recognize the East, shaped a kind of traditional and modern dichotomy in many
Marzieh Rashidi, Alireza Taheri
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The propaganda war in Iran among the former allies, 1945–1949: The Soviet perspective as seen through Soviet documents

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 184-203, Spring 2024.
Abstract This article gives an interesting picture of how the Soviets viewed the propaganda war in Iran during the second half of the 1940s. It is mainly based on documents from the USSR's Ministry of Interior, the use of which is considered an innovation in the existing literature on the subject.
Soli Shahvar
wiley   +1 more source