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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringThe Sasanian Empire (226–651 CE) developed a distinct architectural system that integrated geometric iwans, Zoroastrian cosmic symbolism, and intricate stucco reliefs, embodying its imperial and religious ideology.
Qing Yang
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Arab Conquests. View from Egypt
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023 The reasons for the success of the Arab conquests present a complex problem. It is difficult to explain the victories of the Arab-Muslim troops, which had much less military-demographic potential than neighboring Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)
Anton Voytenko
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Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]
, 2017 The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the ...
Mark Humphries
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The Political and Religious Condition of Iran at Advent of Islam [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2002 Why and how the religion of Islam spread relatively quickly in Iran in the early Muslim centuries is among topics that still attracts scholars in the field of history.
Hossein Moftakhari
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Christians, Jews, and Magic in the Sasanian Realm: Between Confrontation and Cooperation
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 This essay focuses on one particular aspect of Jewish-Christian relations during the Sasanian period, namely various types of interaction between the two religious groups in the domain of magic.
Sergey Minov
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2016 Gurukly Depe is an archaeological site located in the Serakhs oasis in southeast Turkmenistan, excavated since 2010 by the Polish-Turkmen archaeological mission directed by Professor Barbara Kaim from the University of Warsaw.
Dominika Maja Kossowska-Janik
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Oversight, influence and Mesopotamian connections to Armenia across the Sasanian and early Islamic periods [PDF]
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Greenwood, Timothy William
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Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season [PDF]
, 2013 In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and Hellenistic periods.
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Nation and Empire Building the Iranian Way. The Case of the Sasanian Empire in the 3 rd Century
Historia i Świat, 2018 The article concentrates its attention on the practical aspects of the nation and empire building so that it: 1) Analyzes what methods, means and myths the founder Ardašīr I and his immediate successors used in the building of the Iranian nation and then
Ilkka Syvänne
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A note on an Umayyad carved ivory plaque kept at the Walters Art Gallery [PDF]
, 2017 This paper proposes an iconographical and stylistic analysis of a carved ivory plaque kept at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore (acc. no. 71.62). It will show that it is not a Coptic artefact featuring a Sasanian king, as assumed until now, but an ...
DI CESARE, Michelina
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