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Factors Influencing the Education Status in Qahestan (From Seljuk to Safavid era) [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2020 Qahestan is a region in the historical geography of Iran that has a huge and resilient connection with the Great Khorasan area. Although most of the mentioned region is divided between Southern Khorasan and parts of Razavi Khorasan, nevertheless ...
Amir Kouchi +2 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 645-655, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Among my interlocutors in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest city, were individuals who repeatedly claimed that some persons, philosophies, and ethical lives not only might be but actually were perfect (kāmel). The salavāt, a polyvalent blessing upon the Prophet and his descendants, evinces this.
Simon Theobald
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023 Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
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A New Found Versified History of Shah Abbas the Great [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2020 The Fotuhat-i Gitisitan was composed in verse three years before the fall of the Safavid monarchy. A rich historical epic, its focus is on the battles of the most famous kings of the dynasty and provided valuable information in regards to the social ...
Nozhat Ahmadi +1 more
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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 Iraqi state's legitimacy deficit: Input, output and identity‐based legitimacy challenges
Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 363-372, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This article analyses the nature of the legitimacy deficits of the post‐2003 Iraqi state and the grounds upon which alternative political orders have been proposed. The theoretical framework groups possible changes into three types: redistribution, regime change and secession.
Jacob Eriksson, Isaac Grief
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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During
Rémi Dewière
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The Evolution of the Subject and Origin of Arabic to Persian Translations Shiite Texts of the Safavid Period in the Transition from the 10th to the 11th Century [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2023 The growth of translation in the Safavid period can be seen alongside the growth of Persian writing. During this period, many Shi'ite texts were translated from Arabic to Persian.
Mehdi Bazrgar Khazarbegi +1 more
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The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]
, 2009 Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
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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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