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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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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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The Aesthetics of Timurid and Safavid Miniatures
مجلة فنون البصرةThis research studies the aesthetics of Timurid and Safavid miniatures in a comparative manner. The first chapter deals with the research problem, its importance, and defining the most important terms used in it.
Maeda Tareq Mohammed
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West's influence on the Iranian painting from the beginning of Qajar rule to the end of Naseri Era [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2017 The Qajar period is one of the most important sections of art in Iran. The explicit effects of West art culminated in the age which the painting were also affected. In the Qajar period painting consciously inspired by the art of the Safavid period.
مصطفی لعل شاطری +2 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 60-89, February 2024.Abstract This paper contributes to a growing literature on state capacity with reference to the early modern Asian empires. The historiography of these states, and especially the Mughal empire of South Asia, has moved away from an image of unrestrained despotism towards that of a constrained state, but has yet to explore fully what these constraints ...
Safya Morshed
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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 Study on the Clothing of Figures in the Wall Paintings of Esfahan’s Kaisariyeh Market [PDF]
پیکره, 2019 The present article aimed to investigate the clothing style of figures depicted on Isfahan's Kaisariyeh market entrance and study the design and color of these images.
Fatemeh Chavoshi Najafabadi +1 more
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Tracing the Visual Elements in “The Tidings of the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)” Painting in the Ottoman Manuscript of the “Siyer-i-Nebi”, Topkapi Library [PDF]
نگرهIntroduction: The subject of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is one of the events that, based on the descriptions of religious books, was accompanied by extraterrestrial events such as the descent of angels, and it is rarely depicted in manuscripts.
maryam foroughinia, Davood Shadlou
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The Metaphysic of Encounter of Space at the Meet of Persian Miniature with Renaissance Painting [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2015 Persian miniature, in its turbulent history, has been influenced by a variety of visual traditions. From the middle of the Safavid period, by increasing communications with Western countries, visual traditions of Renaissance came to Iran in different ...
abdollah aghaie, marziye piravi vanak
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An Investigation into Transformation of Portraiture in Iranian Miniature Painting till Safavid Era [PDF]
نگره, 2012 Iranian Moslem painters have observed the divinely world through the world beauties; aimed at finding out the worldly instances and understanding the eternal realities.
Mohammad Kazem Hassanvand +1 more
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