The Position and Role of Shekh al-Islam in Socio-Political Affairs of Kerman at the end of Safavid Period [PDF]
Shekh al-Islam was one of the most significant religious positions during Safavid era. One of the functions of this position was spreading of religious jurisprudence and Shiite beliefs in court and the center of provinces.
Mohammad khodaverdi
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Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion. [PDF]
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Kurdistan region: A country profile [PDF]
At the end of the Second Gulf War in early 1991, the Kurdish people in Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein’s regime by liberating most of the areas inhabited by them.However, within a few weeks, the uprising was crushed.The Iraqi army’s attack on Kurdish ...
Kirmanj, Sherko
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A Rainbow of Iranian Masculinities: Raqqas, a Type of Iranian Male Image [PDF]
In this essay, I will explore the male dancer in the Iranian world, and how he came to occupy this abject position (dance, according to Zainab Stellar, being regarded by many conservative elements in Iranian society today as the worst possible behavior ...
Shay, Anthony
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'We must send you a sample'-a Persian-European dialogue: insights into late nineteenth-century ceramic technology based on chemical analysis of tiles from the Ettehadieh house complex, Tehran, Iran. [PDF]
Matin M, Gholamnejad M, Abkenar AN.
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Islamic republic of Iran and Its Opposition [PDF]
This paper takes a stylized paradoxical fact of Iranian politics under the Islamic Republic of Iran as its starting point: the stark confusion between the position and a good portion of the opposition.
Mehrdad Vahabi, Mohajer Nasser
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Islamic support on the westernization policy in the Ottoman empire : making Mahmud II a reformer Caliph-Sultan by Islamic virtue tradition [PDF]
In this article we dealt with the relations between the state and religion / Islam and its interpreters i.e., the ulama, their needs each other. As a case, with an original source, we focused on the time of the Mahmud II (1808-1839) The Ottoman reforms ...
Ersahin, Seyfettin
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Works on market supervision and shar'iyah governance (al-hisbah wa al-siyasah al-shar'iyah) by the sixteenth century scholars [PDF]
In Islamic tradition two sets of works – al-hisbah and al-siyasah al-shar‛iyah – appeared that proved to be a rich source of economic thought of past Muslim thinkers. Works related to al-hisbah generally discussed socio-economic control, moral and market
Islahi, Abdul Azim
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Cities Hosting Holy Shrines: the legacy of Pilgrimage and its impact on Urban Form [PDF]
This paper explores pilgrimage in the context of historic holy cities which contain at least one religious complex through which the ritual of pilgrimage takes place.
Maroufi, H., Rosina, E.
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Gay in the Sasanian period: some preliminary notes on its circular urban plan [PDF]
This paper examines the Sasanian allegedly circular city of Gay, in the region of Isfahan. Material traces of the city have unfortunately been lost so we are forced to rely on Islamic literary sources alone.
Duva, Federica
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