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On the nobility of urban notables [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The claim to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (teseyyüd) was a widespread phenomenon that afflicted the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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Arthur Upham Pope and his research methods in Muhammadan art:Persian carpets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper looks at the emergence of Persian carpet scholarship in the early twentieth century, and the formative role played by Arthur Upham Pope, one of the American pioneers of Iranian art studies and collecting.
Kadoi, Yuka
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Tales Bent Backward: Early Modern Local History in Persianate Transregional Contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article contributes to a growing body of scholarship on immigrants from Safavid Iran who travelled back and forth between their home cities and Hind during the early modern period.
Mancini-Lander, Derek J.
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The Most Important Performing Arts Arisen from \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e of Ferdowsi: \u3cem\u3eShahnameh-khani\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eNaqqali\u3c/em\u3e of \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi is the Iranian national epic, which reflects the history, cultural values, sense of nationhood, and ancient religions of Persia by the only use of Persian pure words in the age of Arabic influence on the literature and science ...
Jahandideh, Mitra, Khaefi, Shahab
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A History of Slavery in Central Asia: Shī’ī Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century Bukhara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Despite more than a century of interest on the part of western scholars and historians in the region of Central Asia, in many respects our knowledge of many topics in Central Asian history ...
Dunbar, Robert
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Three Turkish Letters in the Age of Safavids and Their Evaluation

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
Safavid Empire (1501-1736) was founded by Mirza Ismail who took the support of the Turkmen tribes at the beginning of the 16th century. Ismail Bahadur Khan declared his kingdom at Tabriz former Aq Qoyunlu capital. After that Shah Ismail chosed the Twelve
Cihat AYDOĞMUŞOĞLU
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Where Have All the Symbols Gone?: A Study of Sufis and Sufi Symbolism in Ottoman Miniature Paintings

open access: yes, 2013
Ottoman miniature paintings represent some of the best preserved and documented works of Islamic art still extant. They differ critically from other forms of miniature painting, such as Persian miniature painting, by not representing Sufi symbolism.
Siegel, Jesse E.
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Questioning the “classical” in Persian painting: models and problems of definition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In scholarship on Persian book arts, paintings have tended to be organized according to a rise-and-fall model. Within this overarching framework, the Ilkhanid period represents the birth of painting and the Qajar era its supposed decline, while Timurid ...
Christiane Gruber
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