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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Influences of Construction and Decoration Methods of Safavid Potteries & Ceramics on the Qajar Same Samples. [PDF]
Research on the Iranian Potteries In addition to familiarity with the culture of rules over this land reveals the continuing effects of this art in different periods.
Zahra Ghasemi, Ali Asghar Shirazi
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The Geography of Production and Dissemination of Shiite Translations during the Safavid Period [PDF]
Translation—particularly its temporal and geographic dimensions—has received limited scholarly attention during the Safavid period. During this era, translators undertook the task of rendering select texts with the explicit aim of advancing and ...
Mahdi Bazrgar Khezer Beygi +2 more
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A Comparative Review of the Characteristics of Qur'anic Manuscripts of the Herat Method in the Timurid and Safavid Periods [PDF]
Objective: In this research, by comparing the features of the Qur'anic manuscripts of the Herat method in the Timurid and Safavid periods, it was seeking to identify the prescription pillars of these Qurans, and based on that, it identified other Qurans ...
Hassan Ali Faridouni +3 more
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Investigating and Analyzing the Performance of Safavid Era Women in Promoting Science and Scientific Centers [PDF]
Introduction: Women as half of the effective population of the society, they always have an active presence in various aspects of social life. If one of the fields in which women are influential is paying attention to learning and promoting it.
Hadi Bayati +1 more
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Ryuichi Sugiyama. Vaqf Endowments to the Emām Reżā Shrine during the Late Safavid Period
This paper investigates the role of vaqf endowments in the development of the Emām Reḍā shrine in Mashhad during the late Safavid period. An examination of several collections of vaqf documents concerning the shrine shows that the majority of donors came
Yamaguchi, Akihiko
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Wrestling: An Integral Part of Iranian Fighting Arts
Wrestling played and has been playing a very important role in Iranian cultural heritage. First, the present article discusses the terms and different uses of wrestling techniques be it in unarmed duels or in combination with weapons.
Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
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Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran. London, Tauris, 2004, 256 p. [PDF]
The later Safavid period, hitherto seen as a period of decline that could be generously neglected, has lately received a growing interest. Of special interest is the role of the new slave elites that played an increasingly important role in the fabric of
Christoph Werner, Werner, Christoph
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Comparative analysis of the structure of prefaces of history books and Safavid era tazkerehs [PDF]
The preface is the entrance of the reader and the writer to the main text. The tradition of preface writing flourished in the 4th and 5th centuries of Hijri and reached its peak and elevation in the Timurid period.
Zahra HajMohammadi +1 more
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The impact of archaism discourse on Iranian medical historiography from the Achaemenid period. [PDF]
Kasiri M.
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