A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
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The Growth and Decay of Custom: The Role of the New Institutional Economics in Economic History [PDF]
Customs and institutions affect and are affected by economic relations and processes. The two-way interaction is particularly important in studying history where the scale of the temporal canvas ensures that very few variables can be treated as ...
Basu, Kaushik +2 more
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The rise of Shah Ismael I, from the perspective of the Venetian,Retrieve untranslated Italian sources. [PDF]
Ismail I (907-930 AH), in addition to a centralized government, by formalizing the Shi"ism, made radical changes in the iranian Government and Society.
Mohammad Ali Ranjbar +1 more
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Preliminary thoughts upon the policies of the Ottoman State in the 16th century Indian Ocean [PDF]
This article aims to sketch concisely about the relationships between the Ottomans and the Portuguese pertaining to the developments in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 16th century. The purpose of the Portuguese Kingdom to establish hegemony in
Ozay, Mehmet
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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THE AGE OF SULEYMAN TEH MAGNIFICENT... THE CRISIS OF DIRECTION [PDF]
The establishment of the Ottoman Empire by migrant Turks in Asia Minor is an interesting and prominent event in the Muslim World. The wise policy of the Ottomans in confronting the powers around and the blending of various ethnicities with different ...
Subhi Labib, Farhad Pooriya-nezhad
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Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows
Abstract This article investigates the importance of Turkish film and television in preserving Turkishness among the Turkish‐Australian diaspora. Turkish film and television are found to be crucial to diversifying constructions of Turkishness in the diaspora.
Orhan Karagoz
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Review of \u3cem\u3eA Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia: The Safavids and the Papal Mission of the 17th and 18th Centuries\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
[...]the work provides detailed information about missionary strategies, as a letter of 1665 from a Persian Carmelite to the general of the order in Rome makes clear: To confound Persian temerity accomplished persons are needed, for these people are ...
Lehner, Ulrich
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Ethnic and geographic differentiation of helicobacter pylori within Iran [PDF]
The bacterium Helicobacter pylori colonizes the human stomach, with individual infections persisting for decades. The spread of the bacterium has been shown to reflect both ancient and recent human migrations. We have sequenced housekeeping genes from H.
Latifi-Navid, Saeid +14 more
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ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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