Samarqand’s Congregational Mosque of Bibi Khanum as a Representation of Timurid Legitimacy and Rulership [PDF]
The Bibi Khanum Congregational Mosque is the largest Timurid monument in Samarqand. Commissioned by Timur himself after his military campaign in India in 1399, the architecture of the mosque can be interpreted as a visual representation of Timur’s ...
Elena Paskaleva
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The Ancient Persian Form of the First Mongol Dynasties’ Legitimation [PDF]
Research objectives: To examine the ancient Persian tradition of legitimation of rule by the first Mongol dynasties. Materials: Medieval primary source texts of Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi, Nizam al-Mulk, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi, Rashid
N.A. Filin , .R. Gibadullin , E.B. Boev
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The Reinvention of Padishah-i Islam in the Visual Representations of Ghazan Khan: (English Version) [PDF]
This article discusses how the visualization of Mahmud Ghazan, the sixth Ilkhanid ruler, was employed to construct and propagate his image as the Padishah-i Islam (King of Islam), thus justifying him both as king of Iranshahr (land of Iran) and the ...
Latifkar, Azade
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On the Origins of the Shrine of ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz: The Case for a Revised Chronology [PDF]
This article proposes a re-examination of the phases of construction and decoration at the shrine of ‘Abd al-Samad in Natanz and demonstrates that the core fabric and elements of architectural revetments of the shrine are datable to the Seljuq period ...
Grbanovic, Ana Marija, McClary, Richard
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The Place of Oral History and Myth in Historiography of Rashidaddin Fazollah [PDF]
Khajeh Rashidaddin Fazlollah Hamedani lived at a time that Mongolian and Turkish tribes attacked Iran and inhabited there, and created widespread changes and dissociations in political and social structures and orders of Iran society.
Mehdi Huoshmand Nahand, Naser Sedghi
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A Study on the Evolution of the Structure of Safavid Album Prefaces [PDF]
As the evidence shows, writing preface to Persian works is a tradition that goes back to the first literary or historical works after Islam. With the emergence of various literary and historical forms such as a collection of poems, memoirs or dynastic ...
Hanif Rahimi Pordanjani
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Studing of decorative characteristics of Kermanid artists stucco works in Ilkhanid until beginning of the Timurid Era [PDF]
Ilkhanids, is a title that name to Holaku’s successors and they ruled modern iran and also part of around lands from about 633 A.H to 756 A.H and governments like; AL-e Mozafar, AL-e Injuid, AL-e Kurt some, contemporary to them and by accepting Ilkhanids
Ahmad Salehi Kakhki +2 more
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Taxation or Extortion: A Study of the Tax Collection System in Iran After Ilkhanids with Emphasis on the Safavid and Qajar Eras [PDF]
For several years, corruption news has been heard from Iranian government agencies, a type of intra-group relationships in power structure in which members of each political faction act against the public interest and for their benefit and other members ...
Hanif Amoozadeh Mahdiraji +1 more
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A Comparison Between the Permanent Settlements of the Ilkhanid and Mongol Emperors Based on the Prefixes Used in Manuscripts [PDF]
Seasonal settlements of the Mongol rulers fall into the two general classes of temporary and permanent settlements, which were scattered across the territory under their influence.
Mohammad Mortezaei +2 more
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Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century [PDF]
Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East and ...
Contadini, Anna
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