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The All-Persian Synod of Christians, convened by shāhanshāh Khosrow II Parviz (590–628)

Christianity in the Middle East
This article, based on primary sources mainly in ancient languages of the Christian East, examines the prerequisites, causes and consequences of the council of “all bishops from the borders of the East and Assyria,” convened by the king of kings of ...
Arsen K. Shahinyan
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Les villes romaines victimes des guerres perses dans l’œuvre de Procope de Césarée

Les Cahiers d’EMAM
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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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, Volume 115, Issue 4, Page 295-319, Autumn 2025.
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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Bishapur: Colossal stone statue of the Sassanian king, Shapur II, late 3rd century, which lies fallen from its base in the cave where it was originally set up

, 2020
The importance which the Sassanians attached to details of costume and insignia of office is clearly apparent, but the face shows far more regard for psychological likeness than was usual in royal portraits of this ...
Rice, Tamara Talbot, Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham   +1 more
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Hunting scene on silver bowl with gilding

, 2020
Perhaps Chosroes II (590-627), "the Victorious", or Yazdgard III (632-651) his son, and the last of the Sassanians. Stags, wild boar and goats, "wild sheep and young rodents".
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Fedi Dall'Asen, Liliana, Belloni, Gianguido   +2 more
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Amir Harrak, Syriac and Garshuni Inscriptions of Iraq [PDF]

, 2014
This momentous two-volume publication deals with the Christian history of Iraq. The collection of ca. 600 inscriptions reflects in multiple ways the history of the Christian communities from the early days under the Parthians and the Sassanians, through ...
Van Rompay, Lucas
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A.J. Berkovitz: A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023; pp. x + 263.

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 491-493, December 2024.
Eileen Schuller
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BERDE (BERZA’A) A CITY OF CIVILISATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2014
The city has been the most important symbol of merciless struggle against nature in mankind history since people started to live together. Cities, as places, have been one of the most important indicators of civilizations where humans have fulfilled ...
Mehmet Özmenli
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TENTATIVE CHRONOLOGY ON THE EASTWARD EXTENTION OF SASSANIAN PERSIAN CULTURE:from the standpoint of numismatic archaeology

, 1971
Succeeding to the Parthians, Sassanian dynasty unified Persia and ruled a territory that extended to the Indus river and Central Asia eastwards, and to ancient Mesopotamia area and Armenia westwards, holding thus a central position in the relations ...
T. Okazaki
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Ctesiphon: Ruins of great palace, audience hall to right

, 2020
It was flanked by a wall similar to the one on the left until it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1880. Iwan was 100 ft. high, 140 ft. long. Thought to be the work of Shapur I (241-272). Ctesiphon was Parthian royal city chosen by Ardashir as capital of
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Godard, Andre   +1 more
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