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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 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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The Role and Status of the Sarukhan Sa’dloo Qurchi-Bashi Family in the Military and Administrative Structure of the Safavid State [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخیIn 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
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The Iranian Caravansarais during the Safavid Period. [PDF]
, 1970 This work is a study of the Iranian caravansarai during the Safavid period. It describes the buildings which for economic and religious reasons were erected during this period. It consists of seven chapters as follows: Chapter one: consists of three parts, introduction, historical background and outline history of the Iranian caravansarai. Chapter two:
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A perspective illusion or a view from the clouds? Detail of an Early 16th-Century miniature painting produced in Tabriz (Iran) [PDF]
, 2019 A Persian painting (910H/1505) from a manuscript of Nizami’s Khamsa preserved in the Keir Collection portrays the mi'raj of Muḥammad among many angels in a blue sky; the Ka'ba is depicted in the lower foreground while the desert surrounds almost the ...
Fontana, MARIA VITTORIA
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A Safe Space for the Shah and His Women: The Practice of Quruq in the Safavid Period
Studia litteraria, 2019 Abst rac t This study traces the evolution of quruq – a Mongol term referring to something restricted, embargoed – from its original meaning as a royal burial or hunting ground off-limits to commoners, to what it came to signify in the (late) Safavid ...
R. Matthee
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On the nobility of urban notables [PDF]
, 2005 The claim to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (teseyyüd) was a widespread phenomenon that afflicted the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.
Canbakal, Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
, 2018 This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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A Comparative Study of Safavid Pottery in Kerman and Mashhad And the Influence of Chinese art on them [PDF]
نگره, 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
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