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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]
, 2009 Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories, however, suffer, respectively, from essentialism, circularity and aporia, manifest in their common inability to digest the Janus‐like character of nations, that is, their display of
Kamran Matin, Jahangir Mahmoudi
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Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review
Social Sciences, 2021 The Safavid society’s approach to sexuality and gender has made it a reference for the “pre-modern” discourse, in which gender and sexuality manifest—in contemporary terminology—queerness and fluidity.
Ladan Rahbari
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New perspectives on historical climatology
WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 The first display at the Klimahuset of the Oslo Museum of Natural History presents a timeline of historical events within the growth rings of an old tree. It illustrates the overlay of human and natural histories and of written and physical evidence in simple but compelling fashion.
Sam White +5 more
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Investigating and Analyzing Decorative Designs of «Non-Observational Astronomical Instruments» of the Safavid Period [PDF]
پیکره, 2023 Introduction: Astronomical instruments were made in different eras to observe the condition of stars, to identify the time, and to predict the future. They were produced for observatories in large dimensions and for scientists in small and portable sizes.
Afsaneh Boveyri, Mitra Shateri
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani
Middle East Policy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 79-93, Autumn (Fall) 2022., 2022 Abstract Iran’s armed forces have made tremendous strides since the decade‐long war with Iraq in the 1980s. Tehran’s cultivation of ideologically sympathetic forces, along with the provision of material help, has allowed Iran to project power and influence throughout the Middle East. Some policy analysts who study Iran’s military development are biased
Ahmed S. Hashim
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Pīshkesh (Gift) and Its Functions within the Safavid Fiscal Structure [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایرانIntroduction:Pīshkesh, a traditional structure in Iran, was also prevalent during the Safavid period. Influenced by the cultural changes of Perso-Turkish patterns in post-Islamic Iran, this tradition emerged as a tax with various functions.
Farzad Khoshab +2 more
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
, 2016 (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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The Image of Imam Ali (AS) in the Historiography of the Safavid Era [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2020 1.Introduction In addition to creating political developments, the emergence of the Safavids brought about many cultural changes in Iran. One of these changes was in historiography, which created changes not only in the appearance, but also in the ...
Saeed Nafafinejad
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Contextual and Visual Adaptation of Baqer Kherdeh's Saqi Nameh with Safavid Saqi Namehs and Paintings [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2021 The art of painting in Iran during the Islamic period and literature have been closely related to each other. As great literary works have always been one of the most central manifestations of painting. The Safavid period (1355-907 AH) is one of the most
Abed Karimi, Asghar Rezaporian
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