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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Cruelty against Leniency: The Case of Imperial Zoroastrian Criminal Law
The article examines the impact of Zoroastrianism on criminal law and legal theory during the reign of the Sasanian dynasty (224–651 C.E) in late Antique Persia. This was the historic period when Zoroastrianism was also the ideology of the Iranian state,
Janos Jany
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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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James Howard-Johnston. “The Sasanian State: The Evidence of Coinage and Military Construction” [PDF]
En utilisant les donnees archeologiques et numismatiques ainsi que les textes historiques, l’A. dresse un tableau de l’empire sassanide en tant qu'entite politique forte et centralise, capable de maintenir le pouvoir sur tous les coins de cet immense et heterogene territoire. Sur le territoire controle par les Sassanides circulaient les pieces frappees
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the features of the national sense in the period of Numan bin Al Mundhir, the King of Al-Hirah (585-613 AD) [PDF]
Research is not an easy aspect of Arab history in the pre-Islamic period, due to the lack of basic contemporary sources and the lack of archaeological research from this particular period.
Ibrahim Ali
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USING REMOTELY SENSED DATA FOR DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN NORTHEASTERN MESOPOTAMIA [PDF]
This paper introduces two archaeological sites documented during the MULINEM (The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia) project. This project investigates the Late Sasanian and Islamic urban network in the land of Erbil, a historic ...
E. Matoušková +6 more
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Arab Conquests. View from Egypt
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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Foreign influences on the copper track located in the Archaeological and Urban Research Center at the University of Mosul [PDF]
The Archaeological and Cultural Research Center of the University of Mosul includes a group of Atabek copper coins (not studied), some of which were discovered in the archaeological excavations carried out by the University of Mosul in the area of ...
Abd-AlWahed Al-Ramadany
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In 2006, the excavation of the palace of the rulers of the Principality of Theodoro (1425–1475) in the central area of the ancient town of Mangup (south-western Crimea) uncovered a unique at this site signet-ring of yellowish chalcedony made in the sixth
Valerii Evgen’evich Naumenko +1 more
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Sasanian urbanism and the Arab-Muslim conquest [PDF]
The purpose of this dissertation is to present an updated and broader understanding of urbanism during the Sasanian Empire and how this evolved after the Arab-Muslim conquest.
Rossi, Domiziana
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