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A New Found Versified History of Shah Abbas the Great [PDF]
The Fotuhat-i Gitisitan was composed in verse three years before the fall of the Safavid monarchy. A rich historical epic, its focus is on the battles of the most famous kings of the dynasty and provided valuable information in regards to the social ...
Nozhat Ahmadi +1 more
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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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New perspectives on historical climatology
The first display at the Klimahuset of the Oslo Museum of Natural History presents a timeline of historical events within the growth rings of an old tree. It illustrates the overlay of human and natural histories and of written and physical evidence in simple but compelling fashion.
Sam White +5 more
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani
Abstract Iran’s armed forces have made tremendous strides since the decade‐long war with Iraq in the 1980s. Tehran’s cultivation of ideologically sympathetic forces, along with the provision of material help, has allowed Iran to project power and influence throughout the Middle East. Some policy analysts who study Iran’s military development are biased
Ahmed S. Hashim
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Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art
The ‘Persian’ interior of the American landscape painter Frederic Church is a place crowded with paintings, objects and architectural ornament orchestrated as an installation that the artist both accrued and designed over a thirty‐year period. This regional orientalism, with its cosmopolitan claims and internationally networked cultural politics, is ...
Mary Roberts
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The Role of Religious Concepts in the Nastaliq Inscriptions of Safavid Monuments [PDF]
Problem Definition: The usage of inscriptions in the Safavid monuments has been expanded and diverse, and the initial study of these works shows that the Safavid artists often used Thuluth and Kufic inscriptions to write religious themes and Nastaliq for
Farhad Khosravi Bizhaem
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Abstract This paper is motivated by the following question: how can animated satire constitute a tool of resistance against terrorist groups and their extremist narratives? To answer this question, I examine an Iraqi animated satirical show produced from late 2015 to 2017 to support the military campaign against Islamic State (IS) by turning the self ...
Balsam Mustafa
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Sultan Ebrahim Mirza significance in Safavid Art [PDF]
Iran, in the early tenth century, has undergone political, social, economic changes. These transformations, which pioneered the Safavids into the modern era, gradually surfaced when Safavid dynasty rose to power with King Esmaeil I in 907 Hejri ...
meimanat hassanshahi +1 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 736-750, November 2023.
Peter Good
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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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