Akbar's History of the Timurids [PDF]
Iran, 2021 In around 1584, while based in his capital at Fatehpur-Sikri, Akbar commissioned a history of Timur and his successors, including his own reign up to that date.
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A perspective illusion or a view from the clouds? Detail of an Early 16th-Century miniature painting produced in Tabriz (Iran) [PDF]
, 2019 A Persian painting (910H/1505) from a manuscript of Nizami’s Khamsa preserved in the Keir Collection portrays the mi'raj of Muḥammad among many angels in a blue sky; the Ka'ba is depicted in the lower foreground while the desert surrounds almost the ...
Fontana, MARIA VITTORIA
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The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 60-89, February 2024.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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Arthur Upham Pope and his research methods in Muhammadan art:Persian carpets [PDF]
, 2012 This paper looks at the emergence of Persian carpet scholarship in the early twentieth century, and the formative role played by Arthur Upham Pope, one of the American pioneers of Iranian art studies and collecting.
Kadoi, Yuka
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 7, Issue 1, January–December 2024.The paper examines the physical characteristics of the Gozar as well as its social functions. Mainly, three main functions; political, social, and environmental, are discussed and interesting issues that have never been focused on in the regional studies. Abstract The study aims to discover the formation, functions, typology, and development process of
Ghulam Mohammad Asim, Hajime Shimizu
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A city and its landscape across time: Samarkand in the ancient Sogdiana (Uzbekistan) [PDF]
, 2017 Located in the heartland of Central Asia, Samarkand has always been an economic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious hub along the ancient Silk Road.
Mantellini, S.
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The Shibanid rule in Samarkand: Legitimation, Culture and Monumental Architecture (1512–1578).
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2023 Research objectives: The objective of this research is to analyze the culture and monumental architecture of Samarkand during the reign of the Shibanids, and to identify the origins of cultural traditions in architectural construction in Samarkand ...
Malikov A.
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Reading the acts and lives of performers in Mughal Persian texts [PDF]
, 2015 Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these ...
Sharma, Sunil
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How visas shape and make visible the geopolitical architecture of the planet
, 2016 The aim of the present study is to provide a picture for geopolitical globalization: the role of all world countries together with their contribution towards globalization is highlighted.
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Truth and politics in Late Medieval Arabic historiography : the formation of Sultan Barsbāy’s State (1422‒1438) and the narratives of the Amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438) [PDF]
, 2018 Throughout al-Ashraf Barsbāy’s reign as sultan of Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1422‒1438), one of the main performers and representatives of his expand- ing authority and power was the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438).
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