The Analytical Comparison of Common Intellectual Themes in Religious Stories of Iran and India in Safavid Era [PDF]
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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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
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Aesthetic and Symbolic Functions of Birds Represented in Safavid Carpets [PDF]
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]
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
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An Analytical Study on the Impact of Safavid and Qajar Governments’ Cultural Policies on the Development of Women’s Clothing [PDF]
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
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
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Investigating the State of Dentistry in the Safavid Period [PDF]
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
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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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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 critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
(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
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