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Motives of Shah Ismail Safavi The First toward the Propagation of Shi’ism [PDF]
The effect of propagation of Shi’ism by Shah Ismail Safavi the first is so extensive that is currently observed in the cultural and social domain of Iran.
Saeed Najafinezhad
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The Role and Status of the Sarukhan Sa’dloo Qurchi-Bashi Family in the Military and Administrative Structure of the Safavid State [PDF]
In the wake of military reforms during Shah Abbas I and his efforts to diminish Qizilbash influence—characterized by the removal of powerful Qizilbash commanders and promotion of lesser-known tribal figures—a new elite emerged within the Safavid military
Ali Abolghasemi
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“Giving What They Hold Dear”: Safavid Diplomatic Gifts to Venice
The exchange of gifts was an important aspect of the relations between the Safavid Empire and the Republic of Venice. Drawing on Venetian archival documents, the article aims to explore the nature and significance of Safavid diplomatic gift-giving to ...
A. Guliyev
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The Iraqi state's legitimacy deficit: Input, output and identity‐based legitimacy challenges
Abstract This article analyses the nature of the legitimacy deficits of the post‐2003 Iraqi state and the grounds upon which alternative political orders have been proposed. The theoretical framework groups possible changes into three types: redistribution, regime change and secession.
Jacob Eriksson, Isaac Grief
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A Case Study of Shiite Art and Religious-Ritual Symbols in Safavid Metal Works [PDF]
Traditional artworks in different periods, especially after the advent of Islam in Iran, have benefited a lot from text adornment, due to the emphasis of this religion on science, literacy, and its positive approach to the use of calligraphy. Needless to
Mohammad Ismail Khalaji +2 more
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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms
Abstract The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During
Rémi Dewière
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The relations between the Islamic empires of the early modern period—the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals—have long been the subject of research, as have been the links between each of them and Europe.
Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski
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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations
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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Method and Insight in Historiography Eskandar Bayg Monshi inTarikh-e 'Alamara-ye 'Abbas (with emphasis on the events of Gilan) [PDF]
Historiography thought in the historiography the Safavid dynasty and official was continued based on old traditional structure and based on the attitude of the pious king and Shi'ah promoters.
Mohammad Shoormeij
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The Safavid era is one of the golden eras of Iranian architecture and art influenced by Shiite and Iranian thought, especially during the 42-year reign of Shah Abbas I, in which thinking, ideology and economics grew because of the silk trade. As a result
S. Asadi
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