Examining the function of Ardavirafnameh in rebuilding the legitimacy of the Sassanid state based on Quentin Skinner`s hermeneutic approach [PDF]
Introduction The heart of any state or government's stability is its legitimacy, which confirms the validity of governmental decrees and ensures the continuity of governance.
seyyedhossein athari, Zahra Mohamadpour
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Derbent in the history of Zoroastrianism in the Caucasus
Introduction. For many centuries, the Caucasus has acted as a bridge, through which there was an intensive exchange not only of economic achievements, but also of the ideology of the highly developed regions of the Mediterranean, Minor and Central Asia.
A. А. Kudryavtsev
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Mazdeans and Christians Facing the End of the World: Circulations and Exchanges of Concepts
This contribution offers a conspectus of the parallel treatment of some eschatological subjects in the comparative framework of Mazdean and Christian sources.
Antonio Panaino
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Ann Laura Stoler has asked what happens when we shift our scrutiny from the picturesque ruins of empire to the ongoing process of ruination. Examining some of the many and continuing ruinations of the site Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates, this paper
J. A. Baird
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The position of the Kurds from the Islamic state until the end of the Umayyad era
The subject of the study in Kurdish nationalism is an important topic because it is characterized by showing the bonds of the spectra of Islamic peoples and the extent of the historical depth that Kurdish nationalism occupies in the body of the Islamic ...
أ.م.د مروان عطية مايع
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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan
Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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The army of the Kingdom of Al-Hirah, its organization and tasks
The Kingdom of Al-Hirah is one of the important Arab kingdoms in the pre-Islamic era. It lived with the Sasanian state and had political dependence.
عباس عاجل الحيدري
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Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Abstract This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in Iran) conducted an online survey on religion.
Michael Stausberg +2 more
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Mazdakism and its intellectual and ideological impact on the Sasanian society
This study includes (Mazdakism and its intellectual and ideological impact on the Sasanian society) due to the importance of the Mazdakite revolution, which led to changes in the Sasanian society for the beliefs and ideas it brought, which were ...
خالد موسى الحسيني +1 more
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Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead
Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
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