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The Analytical Comparison of Common Intellectual Themes in Religious Stories of Iran and India in Safavid Era [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2020
According to the historical evidences, the cultural and literary relationships between Iran and India has been previously developing while in Safavid era, these relationships extended due to the common formal language, migration of Iranian Muslims ...
firooz valizadeh   +2 more
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A possible perfection

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 645-655, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Among my interlocutors in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest city, were individuals who repeatedly claimed that some persons, philosophies, and ethical lives not only might be but actually were perfect (kāmel). The salavāt, a polyvalent blessing upon the Prophet and his descendants, evinces this.
Simon Theobald
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions of Birds Represented in Safavid Carpets [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره, 2016
Historically, Safavid era is one of the most outstanding ones in Iran par-ticularly in terms of enhancement of art. In this era, the industry of textile, specially carpet weaving, could improve considerably. In this respect, mythical as well as  symbolic
Shiva Tavakoli   +2 more
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Analysis of Three Theological-Jurisprudential Approaches of Safavid Historians in Legitimizing the Wars of Shah Ismail I to Establish the Safavid State [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی, 2022
Contrary to the view that evaluates how Shah Ismail Safavid gained power and established a state solely through the mechanism of military power, the study of the war narratives to found this state shows the opposite trend.
Ali Ghasemi
doaj   +1 more source

An Analytical Study on the Impact of Safavid and Qajar Governments’ Cultural Policies on the Development of Women’s Clothing [PDF]

open access: yesگردشگری فرهنگ, 2023
Clothing and its surrounding areas, such as its related customs, aesthetics, andindustry, are among the most important issues on which scholars and researchers have focusedin cultural, social, and historical studies.
Ali Asqar Kalantar   +1 more
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023
Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the State of Dentistry in the Safavid Period [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine
Dentistry has been one of the oldest branches of knowledge in the field of medicine. This medical discipline has undergone various changes throughout different historical periods.
Mahmoud Mehmannavaz
doaj   +1 more source

The Iraqi state's legitimacy deficit: Input, output and identity‐based legitimacy challenges

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 363-372, May 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
(Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
core   +1 more source

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