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A New Found Versified History of Shah Abbas the Great [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

New perspectives on historical climatology

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 79-93, Autumn (Fall) 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Worlding on the Hudson: Frederic Church and Global Histories of Art

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 518-544, June 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Religious Concepts in the Nastaliq Inscriptions of Safavid Monuments [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Bigh Daddy Show: The potentiality and shortcomings of countering Islamic State through animated satire

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 113-130, Spring 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Sultan Ebrahim Mirza significance in Safavid Art [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Method and Insight in Historiography Eskandar Bayg Monshi inTarikh-e 'Alamara-ye 'Abbas (with emphasis on the events of Gilan) [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2014
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
doaj   +1 more source

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