Samad ash-Shan, Preliminary Report 1988 [PDF]
Das südöstliche Arabien – ein untererforschtes Teil des Vorderen Orients – wird meist als Teil der parthischen und sasanidischen Hoheiten betrachtet. Schwerpunkt unseres DFG-getragenen Projekts war es, von dieser vordergründigen Ansicht abzuweichen und ...
Weisgerber, Gerd, Yule, Paul
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Iran or Persia : what's in a name, the decline and fall of a tourism industry? [PDF]
The future of tourism in Iran depends on the tenor of the government, whether it be Islamic traditionalist or Islamic liberalist. In Iran religion and politics are inescapably intertwined and inseparable, with the priority of religion over politics. This
Baum, T.G., O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Muslim-christian Debates in Theearly ‘Abbasid Period: the Cases of Timothy I and Theodore Abu Qurra [PDF]
: The era of the early ‘Abbasid caliphate made an important mark on the history of the world by the event of the Greek translation movement, i.e. the translation of Greek thoughts into the Arabic language.
Harmakaputra, H. A. (Hans)
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Bär und Baum - Oso y Madroño. Kulturhistorische Betrachtung einer Motivtypengruppe im Alten Orient und in der Spanischen Heraldik [PDF]
This paper investigates the typology and role of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, in the iconography of the Ancient Near East and Europe, with the aim of illuminating the special combination of the images “bear and tree” thematically.
Stiehler-Alegría, Gisela
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Persian and Chinese Art Exchanges Along Silk Roads [PDF]
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8228, Tadjvidi, Akbar M.
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Gay in the Sasanian period: some preliminary notes on its circular urban plan [PDF]
This paper examines the Sasanian allegedly circular city of Gay, in the region of Isfahan. Material traces of the city have unfortunately been lost so we are forced to rely on Islamic literary sources alone.
Duva, Federica
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Behind the Prosperity of Silk Road [PDF]
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Ḫirbet al-Mafǧar and the enigma of the term al-walīd [PDF]
En este artículo estudiamos un motivo con el que pretendemos recalcar que el califa omeya al-Walīd I aparece como un soberano interesado en reelaborar las tradiciones principescas sasánida y bizantina, actuando al propio tiempo como promotor de un ...
Marfil Ruiz, Pedro F.
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Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]
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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A battle or a campaign? : historical facts about the battle of Al-Qādisiyya (636/637?) and the role of story-tellers in the origin of its narratives [PDF]
The paper presents how the pluralism of relations in the early Muslim sources concerning the memory the Qādisiyya narrative is problematic for reconstructing the event of the battle by modern scholars.
Kościelniak, Krzysztof
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