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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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Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 340-355, August 2025.Abstract This article investigates the importance of Turkish film and television in preserving Turkishness among the Turkish‐Australian diaspora. Turkish film and television are found to be crucial to diversifying constructions of Turkishness in the diaspora.
Orhan Karagoz
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The Contexts and Role of Government Policies in the Development of Cultural Creativity in Safavid Iran [PDF]
Religion & Communication, 2020 Creativity in its general sense is the condition for cultural dynamism and the development of civilization. One of the strengths of contemporary Western civilization is the attraction and employment of elites.
Mohammad Mohsen Hasanpour +3 more
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Safavid Shehzade Alkas Mirza and His Role in the Ottoman Empire
Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta Seriya Gumanitarnye NaukiThis article explores the short life of the Safavid Shehzade Alkas Mirza (1516–1550), the second son of Shah Ismail. In the early adult years, he served as the governor (beylerbey) of Shirvan, where he ruled under the authority of his elder brother ...
O. Yurdakal
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History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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A Comparative Study on Designs of Gurkanid and Safavid Textiles [PDF]
نگره, 2012 Because of having all aspects of applications among many segments of society, textile is one of the leading and largest industries in the Muslim countries, including Iran and India. For this reason Ninth to eleventh centuries AH (fifteenth to seventeenth
Maryam Moghadam, Abolfazl Firouzabad
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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 279-295, September 2024.Abstract The fate of diplomatic gifts after their presentation can reveal patterns of instability and shifting narratives on the items themselves and how they were perceived and received at the time. Often, these important pieces of material evidence disappear or are decontextualised from their exchange.
Samantha Happe
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Pilgrimage Trips of Safavid Kings [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2003 With the Shi'ah branch of Islam becoming the official religion in the Safavid period )709-5311 AH(, the Safavid kings paid more attention and showed more interest in pilgrimage to the tombs of the Shi'ah Imams, their descendants and leading sufi figures ...
Mohamad - Ali Ranjbar
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A perspective illusion or a view from the clouds? Detail of an Early 16th-Century miniature painting produced in Tabriz (Iran) [PDF]
, 2019 A Persian painting (910H/1505) from a manuscript of Nizami’s Khamsa preserved in the Keir Collection portrays the mi'raj of Muḥammad among many angels in a blue sky; the Ka'ba is depicted in the lower foreground while the desert surrounds almost the ...
Fontana, MARIA VITTORIA
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract The urban planning work carried out in the old seminary district of Lleida, over an area of more than 6,000 m2, uncovered important remains of the old Cuirassa quarter. This quarter was inhabited by the Jewish aljama between the 12th century and the end of the 15th century CE.
Ariadna Nieto‐Espinet +4 more
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