“Their Beastly Manner”: Discourses of Non-Binary Gender and Sexuality in Shi’ite Safavid Persia [PDF]
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 The Safavid dynasty ruled Persia between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as a turning period in the political, social and religious trajectories of Persian history.
Ladan Rahbari
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Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review
Social Sciences, 2021 The Safavid society’s approach to sexuality and gender has made it a reference for the “pre-modern” discourse, in which gender and sexuality manifest—in contemporary terminology—queerness and fluidity.
Ladan Rahbari
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Ethnic and geographic differentiation of Helicobacter pylori within Iran. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2010 The bacterium Helicobacter pylori colonizes the human stomach, with individual infections persisting for decades. The spread of the bacterium has been shown to reflect both ancient and recent human migrations. We have sequenced housekeeping genes from H.
Latifi-Navid S +14 more
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Examination of the Quranic Narrative in the Safavid Historiography of Shah Ismail's Rise to Power [PDF]
قرآن فرهنگ و تمدن, 2023 The ascension of Shah Ismail Safavi (907-930 AH) and the establishment of the Safavid dynasty constitute one of the most significant events in Iranian history.
mahmoud mehmannavaz
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The Effect of Mithraism on Safavid Tangled-Fish Design Carpets [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2021 Carpets have undergone one of the stages of prosperity and richness during the Safavid period. In this historic period, the establishment of large royal workshops under the support of the Safavid government paved the way for the creation of beautiful ...
Hamid reza Avishi +2 more
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Social characteristics of clerics in the Safavid period (1501-1722) [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2022 Clerics played a pivotal role and influence in the educational, socio -governmental structure of the Safavid era. Therefore, in order to understand the social status of clerics, it is necessary to survey and specify general educational process and their ...
Mahdi Dehghani
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Iranian Painting, A Government Multi-Purpose Media (Case Study: Safavid Period Garden Painting) [PDF]
پیکره, 2022 Problem Definition: As a multifaceted medium, garden paintings have included the social structure and power relations of the Safavids. The scientific challenge of the current research is to identify the ideology of the Safavid government in the hidden ...
Soniya Nouri +3 more
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Values and Tendencies of Islamic Philosophy on Safavid Residential Architecture; Case Study: Safavid New Jolfa Houses [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2020 Architecture, as a form of civilization, has always represented the deepest spiritual tendencies of a nation; such a notion is constantly deliberated upon when studying Islamic architecture. Traditional Islamic architecture is deeply intertwined with the
Mahsa Majidi +2 more
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The Role of Schools in the Production and Writing of Jurisprudential Works in the First Safavid Period according to the Manuscripts of Iranian Libraries [PDF]
کتابداری و اطلاعرسانی, 2022 Objective: The main aim of this research is to determine the centers and schools for the reproduction of jurisprudential sources and to study the frequency of jurisprudential works written in Shiite schools in the first Safavid period.Methodology: Due ...
Habibollah Azimi
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Travelling Across Cultures: Some Aspects of the Safavid Envoys’ Travels to Venice
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2023 The paper aims to explore the practical aspects of the Safavid envoys’ travels to Venice in the sixteenth and the first part of the seventeenth centuries.
Guliyev, Ahmad
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