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Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 414-425, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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Manifestations of the Historian’s Presence in Two Historical Texts of the Safavid Era
Literature History, 2023 Historiography is one of the important branches of Islamic sciences which received great attention and success in the Safavid era. The presence of the historian in the text is one of the challenging issues of traditional and modern historiography, and two different views have been proposed in connection with it. The absence of the historian in the text
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A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 817-827, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
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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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The Importance of Folk literature in Representing Social History: A Review of Hussein Kurd Shabestari's Fiction [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اجتماعی, 2013 Exploring non-historical and non-chronological sources, especially fictional sources (oral and written), which are in fact the collective mentality of common people and are a significant part of folk literature, can be a helpful approach to illuminate ...
Abdolrasul Kheirandish, Ameneh Ebrahimi
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Typology of School-Mosque in Ilkhani, Timurid, Safavid and Qajar Eras [PDF]
International Journal of Science, Technology and Society, 2015 Mosques were the first place used for education in the first centuries of Islam. Although in later periods, independent schools were created, due to religious instructions performed in schools, mosques and schools rejoined in different ways, and the school - mosque appears in Islamic architecture. However, little attention has been paid to this type of
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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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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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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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