Typology of School-Mosque in Ilkhani, Timurid, Safavid and Qajar Eras [PDF]
Mosques were the first place used for education in the first centuries of Islam. Although in later periods, independent schools were created, due to religious instructions performed in schools, mosques and schools rejoined in different ways, and the school - mosque appears in Islamic architecture. However, little attention has been paid to this type of
H. Hayaty, M. Behdarvand
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The Style and Architectural Decorations of Timurid Structures [PDF]
The Islamic architecture of Iran is the result of a natural continuity of architecture in diverse historical epochs. Therefore, perceiving and studying the history of architecture can aid understanding the architecture of the Islamic period and its ...
Ehsan Rasouli +2 more
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Factors Affecting the Situation of Business in Khorasan and Transoxania during the Timurid Period [PDF]
The present paper deals with the status of trade in Khorasan and Transoxania in the Timurid period, which is one of the elements that make up the Timurid economy. In this paper, based on the data in the sources and with a descriptive-analytical approach,
Shahram Farahnaki +3 more
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Framing gender in Mughal South Asia
Abstract Research on gender in Mughal South Asia has tended to focus either on the nature of the harem and elite female seclusion or, alternately, on constructions of elite masculinity. The first body of literature centers on debates as to the degree to which the harem functioned to limit (elite) women and constrain their political, economic, and ...
Emma Kalb
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A Comparative Study of Visual and Structural Features of the Geometric Patterns on Selected Tiles of the Imam Reza’s Shrine in the Seljuk and Timurid Periods [PDF]
Iranian culture and civilization, despite the ethnic and racial diversity of the inhabitants of this land, the political developments and the invasion of the invaders and settlers, have always been regarded as an appropriate context for the advancement ...
Zohreh Sepasi, Khashayar Ghazizadeh
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Survey the Meaning and Form of Persian Poetic Inscriptions on Potteries of Timurid and Safavid Era [PDF]
After two centuries of Islam advent, using script gradually was distributed as a decorative element in different types of pottery gradually. Motifs of pottery inscriptions that first were limited to short arabic phrases such as the name of potter or good
Seyed Rasoul Mousvi Haji +2 more
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Comparative Survey of Jovak Motifs of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardebili Monument’s Doors and Khoja Ahmad Yasawi Mausoleum’s Doors [PDF]
There are unique masterpieces of wooden artworks from different periods after Islam, especially the Timurid and the Safavid eras, which in terms of technique and motifs significant similarities and differences can be seen between them. One of the special
Zeynab Moradiyan gojhebaglo +3 more
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Mamluk authorities and anatolian realities : Jānibak al-Ṣūfī, sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy, and the story of a social network in the Mamluk/Anatolian frontier zone, 1435-1438 [PDF]
This article engages with the 838–841/1435–1437 Anatolian adventures of the Mamluk amir Jānibak al-Ṣūfī. It demonstrates how Jānibak's narrative is a remarkable story full of meanings, which enable a more nuanced understanding of Mamluk engagements with ...
Adriaenssens, Veerle +1 more
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Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd [PDF]
This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship
Mancini-Lander, Derek
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