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Afterlives of the Persian Gifts to Versailles
Abstract The fate of diplomatic gifts after their presentation can reveal patterns of instability and shifting narratives on the items themselves and how they were perceived and received at the time. Often, these important pieces of material evidence disappear or are decontextualised from their exchange.
Samantha Happe
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The Reflection of Changes in religious views on Public Histories in Safavid Era [PDF]
Historiography in every era is the complete mirror of that era. One of the brightest eras in Iran history is Safavid era. In this era, Iran history was involved with the greatest changes in different political and cultural arenas.
Badr al-Sadat Alizadeh Moghaddam
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Abstract The urban planning work carried out in the old seminary district of Lleida, over an area of more than 6,000 m2, uncovered important remains of the old Cuirassa quarter. This quarter was inhabited by the Jewish aljama between the 12th century and the end of the 15th century CE.
Ariadna Nieto‐Espinet +4 more
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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia
Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions.
Emrah Yıldız
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Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre
Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen +2 more
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Obavještajne aktivnosti u zapisima dinastijskog hroničara Idrisa Bidlisija [PDF]
While reading Idrīs Bidlīsī’s chronicle, we find records of spies’ activities in many places, either through direct references or indirect ones, as an element of the war strategy of the Ottoman state. This article uses philological methods to investigate
Sabaheta Gačanin
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Abstract This paper contributes to a growing literature on state capacity with reference to the early modern Asian empires. The historiography of these states, and especially the Mughal empire of South Asia, has moved away from an image of unrestrained despotism towards that of a constrained state, but has yet to explore fully what these constraints ...
Safya Morshed
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Land use maps based on 1839, 2011, and 2018. Abstract This study evaluates land use transformation in Kandahar's old city, also known as Ahmad Shahi city, the birthplace and first capital of modern Afghanistan. The city consists of four rectangular quarters and is surrounded by a high strong mud wall, entrance gates, and a moat.
Javed Ahmad Farooqi, Hiroko Ono
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Savory (Roger) : Iran under the Safavids
Adle C. Savory (Roger) : Iran under the Safavids. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 69, n°256, 3e trimestre 1982. pp.
Adle, Chahryar
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The Political Conditions of Transoxiana in the Islamic Era up to the Establishment of the Safavid Rule [PDF]
This research deals with the political conditions of Transoxiana in the beginning centuries of Islamic era up until the establishment of the Safavid dynasty in Iran.
Hamid Hajian-poor
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