Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Paleoanthropology has been slow to adopt postcolonial frameworks to assess the validity of interpretations of human origins. This blind spot is made worse when we consider that postcolonial critique is often inappropriate for post‐communist spaces.
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
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Questioning the “classical” in Persian painting: models and problems of definition [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2012 In scholarship on Persian book arts, paintings have tended to be organized according to a rise-and-fall model. Within this overarching framework, the Ilkhanid period represents the birth of painting and the Qajar era its supposed decline, while Timurid ...
Christiane Gruber
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Characteristics and Educational Policies of Teymourid Educational Complexes in Greater Khorasan; with the Approach of Inscriptional Readings [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2020 The purpose of this article is to study the position and function of schools and teachers in Greater Khorasan in the Timurid period and to assess the various information values of Timurid inscriptions.
Javad Rajabi Mandi +3 more
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Comparison of the Characteristics of Endowment-educational Complexes in Ilkhanid and Timurid Period of Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2021 At the international level, the evolution of higher education in Muslim countries has not received much attention from educational scientists. The purpose of this study was to compare the characteristics of endowment-educational complexes in the two ...
Javad Rajabi Mandi +2 more
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A Critique of Manz's Epistemological View on the Book “Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran” [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2020 This present paper criticizes the interpretive approaches of Beatrice Forbes Manz’s, a researcher of Mongol and Timurid era, on the book "Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Period in Iran".
Sayyed Abolfazl Razavi
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Art-Sanat, 2022 The expansion of Russia into Asia in the second half of the 19th century was a beginning of a new era for the cultural heritage of Central Asia. Samarkand, which has become legendary since the Middle Ages with its magnificent Timurid monuments, was the ...
Elif Kök
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Eric Schroeder: maverick polymath [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2023 The article surveys the life and output of Eric Schroeder (1904-71), who served from 1938 as (mainly honorary) Keeper of Persian Art at the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, mounting choice exhibitions and greatly expanding the collection of ...
Robert Hillenbrand
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Herat City and its Structural Changes During the Mongol and Timurid Periods [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 Herat is one of the major cities in the eastern part of Greater Iran and northwestern Afghanistan. Like other cities of Khorasan, Herat was destroyed after the Mongol attack.
Shahin Garakani Dashteh Garakani Dashteh
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Shi'i Themes in the art of the Timurid era with emphasis on line and Calligraphy [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2018 The Timurids were the Turkish-Mongolian tribes that dominated the districts of Transoxania and Iran over the years (913-771 BC). The simultaneous experience of one-time and nomadic life in Alush Goghtai and Central Asia led Timur and his successors to ...
vahid abdinpour joshaghani +1 more
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A comparative study of the metal candlestick images in the paintings of Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb and similar examples of Islamic periods (Seljuk, Ilkhanid, Timurid and Safavid periods) [PDF]
پیکره, 2020 Problem definition: Metal candlestick is one of the most widely used accessory for providing lighting and one of the common tools of the past periods whose images are abundantly depicted in the Shahnameh’s paintings and the display of these objects has ...
Sahar Zekavat
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