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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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]

open access: yesکتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی
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
doaj   +1 more source

“Death or conversion”: From welfare to famine in the Jewish quarter of Lleida, Spain (12th–14th century)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract The urban planning work carried out in the old seminary district of Lleida, over an area of more than 6,000 m2, uncovered important remains of the old Cuirassa quarter. This quarter was inhabited by the Jewish aljama between the 12th century and the end of the 15th century CE.
Ariadna Nieto‐Espinet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tafseer studies in the Safavid period [PDF]

open access: yes
Doktora TeziTezimizin konusu, Safevîler Dönemi Tefsir Çalışmaları’dır. İran’da Safevîler döneminde, hicrî 10/16. Yüzyıl ile 12/18. Yüzyılın ortalarında Şiîliğin resmileştirilmesi ve İran’ın mezhebî atmosferinin İmamiyye (isnâaşeriyye) lehine ...
Şayik, Gaybullah
core   +1 more source

Investigating the State of Dentistry in the Safavid Period [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Research on History of Medicine
Dentistry has been one of the oldest branches of knowledge in the field of medicine. This medical discipline has undergone various changes throughout different historical periods.
Mahmoud Mehmannavaz
doaj   +1 more source

Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Role and Status of the Sarukhan Sa’dloo Qurchi-Bashi Family in the Military and Administrative Structure of the Safavid State [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی
In the wake of military reforms during Shah Abbas I and his efforts to diminish Qizilbash influence—characterized by the removal of powerful Qizilbash commanders and promotion of lesser-known tribal figures—a new elite emerged within the Safavid military
Ali Abolghasemi
doaj   +1 more source

Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre

open access: yesAnnals 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
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Safavid Pottery in Kerman and Mashhad And the Influence of Chinese art on them [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2014
Safavid pottery, like the other arts in this period has experienced considerable growth and dynamism. In this period masterpieces of pottery, from lusterware and “blue and white" to the Celadon and Kubachi and Gombroon have been produced in numerous ...
Abbas Akbari, Ali Sadeghi Taheri
doaj  

State of forgiveness: Cooperation, conciliation, and state formation in Mughal South Asia (1556–1707)

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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