The Antiquity of the Avesta [PDF]
Paper read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, read 26th June 1896. Dr.
Duong, T. Q. +5 more
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A Reflection of the Global History: The Persian Empire’s Role in the Relations between the Roman Empire and China (1st - 7th century CE ) [PDF]
"Δεν παρατίθεται περίληψη"The Roman Empire and China had close relations through the famous Silk Road in history. However, there existed only indirect relations for the obstacles of the intermediaries.
LI, QIANG
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Les villes romaines victimes des guerres perses dans l’œuvre de Procope de Césarée
During the centuries of confrontation between the Roman and the Sassanian Empires (3rd-7th centuries AD), the cities of the Roman East were important military stakes.
Sylvain Janniard
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Zafar, Capital of Himyar, Sixth Preliminary Report, February–March 2006 [PDF]
Die Grabungsmannschaft der Universität Heidelberg untersucht Zafar – Hauptstadt der himyarischen Stammeskonföderation – seit 1998.
Franke, Kristina +3 more
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Brush Up Your Webster\u27s [PDF]
From time to time in Word Ways we have seen logological wordplay illustrated from a bewildering variety of sources. In this article we propose to show that one need not always look in arcane and esoteric references to prove one\u27s point.
Myles, Alden, Standish, John
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King Peroz’s last stand: Assessing Procopius’s account of the Hephthalite-Sasanian War of 484 [PDF]
In Procopius’s account of the Hephthalite-Sasanian War of 484, the Sasanian defeat is attributed to an overextended and camouflaged ditch. Over the time, some other ancient historians have retold these events with alternative and occasionally ...
KHONSARINEJAD, Ehsan +3 more
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Kingship and divinity - The unpublished Frazer Lecture, Oxford, 28 October 1982 [PDF]
This is the final published article.
Leach, Sir Edmund Ronald
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The Sasanian Tradition in ʽAbbāsid Art : squinch fragmentation as The structural origin of the muqarnas [PDF]
Islamic architecture presents a three-dimensional decoration system known as muqarnas. An original system created in the Near East between the second/eighth and the fourth/tenth centuries due to the fragmentation of the squinche, but it was in the fourth/
Carrillo, Alicia
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On the Social Status of Some Gold Finds Dated to the 4th-7th Centuries from Todays Bulgarian Lands [PDF]
The article discusses the social status of finds from the Late Antiquity or Early Byzantine or also called Migration Period in todays Bulgarian lands. The finds are interpreted in respect of their function and technique alongside with their parallels in ...
Minaeva, Oksana
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