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Silver recycling in the Viking Age: Theoretical and analytical approaches. [PDF]
Abstract The recycling (remelting) of precious metals is commonly seen as a major impediment in provenancing studies. Yet in cases where known silver sources are both limited and geochemically well‐characterized, there are opportunities to evaluate silver flows at different temporal and geographical scales. Here, we provide a theoretical and analytical
Kershaw J, Merkel SW.
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Jurists, scholars and authority In the Abbasid era during the two centuries (4 AH and 5 AH / 10 CE and 11 CE) [PDF]
At the beginning of the second third of the fourth century AH / tenth century AD, the Abbasid Caliphate defined a critical period after the entry of the Daihoy dynasty to Iraq at the head of a foreign army that did not believe in the legitimacy of Arab ...
Oumelkheir Otmani
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The occupation of Baghdad by the Mongols [PDF]
Much has been written and will be written about the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate and about the Mongol’s occupation of Baghdad, as this event has dangerous effects on Islamic-Arab history on the one hand and on world history on the other hand, and ...
Abd-AlMuneem Rashid
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The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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The Origin of Political Sufi Discourse in Iran and its Analysis based on Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse Theory [PDF]
The Manichaean and Mazdakites influenced the ideas succeeding them. Expressing objection to the cruel kings’ oppression and injustice in society was one of the prominent features of some Mystic and Sufi sects.
Alireza Heydari +2 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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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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The Analysis of Abu Ayyub Muriani’s Actions in Time of Mansoor Abbasi (136-154 After Hijrah) [PDF]
In the first era of Abbasid caliphate (132-232 after hijrah), considering the policy of taking advantage of Iranians in governing affairs, the ground for the presence of people and Iranian households in caliphate system was provided. The favorable action
Arman Forouhi +2 more
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Abstract This article explores an intellectual disconnection in architectural education about the conception of wood as a building material. It explores initiatives to develop in future architects a deeper consciousness of the complex ecology of timber, promoting its sustainable use in the building industry.
James Benedict Brown, Francesco Camilli
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Social Acceptance of the Fatimid Caliphs in the Light of Social Vitality of Popular Rituals [PDF]
After the transfer of power to Cairo and selection of Cairo as the capital of Islam, the Fatimids needed to strengthen the legitimacy and acceptability of their caliphate against the Abbasid caliphate and in the Sunni community of Egypt in order to ...
Mohammad reza Barani, Narges Malek
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