The Ancestry of Iranian Women in the Sassanid Court based on Illustrated and Written Historical Sources [PDF]
An overall study on the extended periods of Iranian history indicates that the subject of ancestry is one of the significant political and social concerns which was closely related to legitimacy.
Mitra Mirbakhsh +2 more
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Analyzing and Comparing Iranians’ Political Culture in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and Tahir’s Letter to Abdullah [PDF]
1. Introduction The continuation of ancient Iran’s political culture and thought during the era of Islamic Iran has attracted significant attention. A large number of studies have been conducted on Andarznama (Epistles) and Siyar al-mulûk (the Lives of ...
Najmeddin Gilani, Mahsa Mousavi
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Ancient DNA indicates 3,000 years of genetic continuity in the Northern Iranian Plateau, from the Copper Age to the Sassanid Empire [PDF]
Anna Szécsényi-Nagy +2 more
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A Comparative Study of the Implications of Arabic and Persian Sources of the Islamic Period on the Foundations of Political Power and Legitimacyin the Parthian and Sassanid Eras [PDF]
It has been greatly considered about the foundations of political power and legitimacy in ancient Iran, especially in the Sassanid era. Moreover, the divinity of monarchy, descent, power and justice have often been mentioned as the four elements of power
Shahnaz Hojati Najafabadi +1 more
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The Religious Policies of the Sassanid Sovereigns and its Reflection on the Stone Reliefs of Persepolis [PDF]
Religion had its peaks and valleys during the Sassanid period from its foundation to extinction; which lasted more than four centuries. The role of Ardeshir Babakan, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty is prominent.
Zahra Gholikhani +3 more
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Social Status of Women in the Sassanid Period (Based on the Seals and its Effects) [PDF]
The knowledge gained in the field of social history in ancient Iran has constantly caused complications for researchers due to the method of historiography and the limitation of written sources. Meanwhile, the remnants of the Sassanid period (224-651 AD)
Behrokh Jamali +2 more
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Analytic Study of the Impact of Themes and Motifs of Sassanid Metalwork on Buyid Metalwork [PDF]
The changes that have emerged after the Sassanid defeat by the Muslim Arabs and the religious changes that have emerged in Iran have had a dramatic effect on the arts, industries and techniques of the early Islamic centuries.
Abolfazl Sadegpour firuzabad +1 more
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Conflict and Agreement of the Members of Great Families and Grandees with the King in the Sassanid Era (from the Rise of Sassanid to the reign of Ghobad I) [PDF]
In Sassanid kingdom, several great and small families inhabited all over Iran, among which seven families of Kāran, Suren, Spāhbad, Mehrān, and Spandiaz, Zik and the house of Sassanid were more noble and powerful than others.
Shahram Jalilian
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The Power of Unintended Consequences: Strategic Naïvety, China and the End of the US Empire
Abstract The decline of major global empires has frequently rested upon an act of strategic naïvety. Such an action or decision, although innocuous at the time, results many decades later in those empires collapsing. History is punctuated by examples of great powers that have misjudged the intentions of a rising power, leading to a highly adversarial ...
Chris Ogden, Mark Bhaskar
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Abstract In this essay, I interrogate the nature and grounds of Milbank's understanding of taste as it applies to differing mythic sensibilities, arguing that it is insufficiently responsive to the priority of God's action and so inadequate to a Christian theological account of the interplay of mythoi.
Andrew T. Shamel
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