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In The 16th Century, The Reasons for The Failure of Mawlawiyya to Spread in Safavid Iran
Avrasya İncelemeleri DergisiIn the 16th century, the Ottoman and Safavid states, as two great Turkish states in the Islamic world, were experiencing political and religious problems. One of these problems was the support or suppression of Sufi orders for various reasons.
Bahram Karju Ajirlu, Hasan Hazrati
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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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The Study of Safavid’s Relationships with Christian Minority in Iran throughout the Development and Authority (907-1100 After Hijrah / 1501-1600 AC) [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2018 Safavid as the first government of Shiite Twelvers was dealing with two religious trends of Sunnites and the followers of non Islamic religions. The historical sources have presented different and contradictory reports in relation to the way of Safavid’s
Abbas Masiha, Hassan Zandiyeh
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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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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 168-186, March 2024.Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions.
Emrah Yıldız
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A Comparative Study on Designs of Gurkanid and Safavid Textiles [PDF]
نگره, 2012 Because of having all aspects of applications among many segments of society, textile is one of the leading and largest industries in the Muslim countries, including Iran and India. For this reason Ninth to eleventh centuries AH (fifteenth to seventeenth
Maryam Moghadam, Abolfazl Firouzabad
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Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1533, Issue 1, Page 51-72, March 2024.Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen +2 more
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Rudi Matthee. Was Safavid Iran an empire? [PDF]
Abstracta Iranica, 2013 The author argues that Safavid Iran enjoyed a “cohesion and coherence” that made it more than a mere “gunpowder empire” (pace Marshall Hodgson, The venture of Islam, vol. 3, The gunpowder empires and modern times, Chicago, 1974) and allowed it “to function as an empire in spite of exiguous economic resources and the limitations of ideological ...
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–December 2024.Land use maps based on 1839, 2011, and 2018. Abstract This study evaluates land use transformation in Kandahar's old city, also known as Ahmad Shahi city, the birthplace and first capital of modern Afghanistan. The city consists of four rectangular quarters and is surrounded by a high strong mud wall, entrance gates, and a moat.
Javed Ahmad Farooqi, Hiroko Ono
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A glance at Iran`s economic harm during Safavid dynasty [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2013 Safavids putting up an extremely powerful central government succeeded in making many changes in political, social and economic areas. Such changes became a foundation based on that they could establish their dynasty.
a Akhzari, aa Kajbaf
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