A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
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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Investigating and Analyzing the Performance of Safavid Era Women in Promoting Science and Scientific Centers [PDF]
Introduction: Women as half of the effective population of the society, they always have an active presence in various aspects of social life. If one of the fields in which women are influential is paying attention to learning and promoting it.
Hadi Bayati +1 more
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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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Domestic architecture in Safavid Iran, 1501-1737 [PDF]
University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.This thesis reveals, for the first time, the significance, scope and achievements of Safavid (1501-1736) domestic architecture in Iran.
Dehgani, M
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
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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Analytical Study of Centers and Foci of Jurisprudential Manuscripts Production in the Second half of the Safavid Period and its Comparison with Jurisprudential Works of the First Half with Reference to the Manuscripts of Iranian Libraries [PDF]
Objective: The purpose of this research project was the analytical examination of the centers of authoring and writing of jurisprudence works of the second Safavid period and determining the centers and schools of copying jurisprudence sources in the ...
Habibollah Azimi
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Tales Bent Backward: Early Modern Local History in Persianate Transregional Contexts [PDF]
This article contributes to a growing body of scholarship on immigrants from Safavid Iran who travelled back and forth between their home cities and Hind during the early modern period.
Mancini-Lander, Derek J.
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Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows
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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Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]
Unlike other related studies which are focusing on either excavations or excavators, this essay explores some aspects of the early development of archaeology in Islamic Iran as a particular moment in intellectual history.
Szántó, Iván
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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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