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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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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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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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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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
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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Archaeological and ethnographic survey in the Paikuli Area (Iraqi Kurdistan) [PDF]
The Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of the Sapienza University of Rome aims to study the archaeological, historical, linguistic and cultural development of the Kurdish region through a wide historical period.
BOGDANI, JULIAN +2 more
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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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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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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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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