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David Stronach And British Archaeology In The Middle East

by Dr Sabrina (University Of California, Berkeley) Maras

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 A biography of the first director of the British Institute of Persian Studies.
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Genealogical History In The Persianate World

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 Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as sources for historical research. Genealogical writings are one form of such documentation that has demonstrated significant potential for addressing a wide range of research concerns, particularly for topics that receive little attention in historical chronicles and other state-centered narrative sources. However, while genealogical documentation has received some attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in scholarship on Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based primarily on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene as well as readers in other fields interested in comparative research demonstrating the use of genealogical documentation as historical sources.
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Genealogical History In The Persianate World

~~101,36€~~ 91,22€ 10% OFF

 Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as sources for historical research. Genealogical writings are one form of such documentation that has demonstrated significant potential for addressing a wide range of research concerns, particularly for topics that receive little attention in historical chronicles and other state-centered narrative sources. However, while genealogical documentation has received some attention in scholarship on the Arab world, it remains mostly unstudied in scholarship on Persianate societies. The chapters in this book offer reflections on theoretical and methodological issues concerning the study of genealogical documentation, combined with case studies based primarily on previously unpublished, unstudied source materials. The topics explored span the full breadth of the Persianate world, from Anatolia to the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia to the Gujarat region of India, utilizing sources dating from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of Islamic history and the Persianate ecumene as well as readers in other fields interested in comparative research demonstrating the use of genealogical documentation as historical sources.
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Piety And Politics In Qajar Iran - The Takkiyya Mu’Avin Al-Mulk In Kermanshah

by Nahid Massoumeh Assemi

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 The Takkiyya Mu''avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn ''Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shi''i Islam. Private takkiyyas built by social elites were a phenomenon of the Qajar period, with their construction motivated by a political quest for legitimacy. This book examines the intersection of art and architecture, popular piety, and the politics of legitimation. Through an examination of the building and its decorative programme, it addresses issues of patronage, Shi''i iconography and popular religious practices during the early 20th century in Iran. It further argues for the role of takkiyyas in creation of a sense of community and group identity; the formative stage of the emergent idea of nationhood at the time, amongst those who frequented them.
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Piety And Politics In Qajar Iran - The Takkiyya Mu’Avin Al-Mulk In Kermanshah

by Nahid Massoumeh Assemi

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 The Takkiyya Mu''avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn ''Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shi''i Islam. Private takkiyyas built by social elites were a phenomenon of the Qajar period, with their construction motivated by a political quest for legitimacy. This book examines the intersection of art and architecture, popular piety, and the politics of legitimation. Through an examination of the building and its decorative programme, it addresses issues of patronage, Shi''i iconography and popular religious practices during the early 20th century in Iran. It further argues for the role of takkiyyas in creation of a sense of community and group identity; the formative stage of the emergent idea of nationhood at the time, amongst those who frequented them.
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Plays And Films Of Bahram Beyzaie - Origins, Forms And Functions

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 Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran''s leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie''s films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Iranian contemporary, historical and mythical identity from different perspectives. The chapters analyse Beyzaie''s influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and his filmic magnum opuses such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs from a range of critical perspectives including ecofeminist, sociopolitical, new-historicist, archetypal and psychoanalytical readings. They also explore Beyzaie''s dialogue with filmic genres such as noir, different Iranian languages such as Gilaki, Iranian epics and ritual practices such as ta''ziyeh plays and javanmardi chivalry cults. Together, the chapters show how Beyzaie''s works negotiate narratives of belonging and undermine the dominant exclusionist discourses in Iran, and how they use the resources of Iranian folk and performance traditions to comment on the position of women, children, intellectuals, and minorities in society.
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Plays And Films Of Bahram Beyzaie - Origins, Forms And Functions

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran''s leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie''s films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Iranian contemporary, historical and mythical identity from different perspectives. The chapters analyse Beyzaie''s influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and his filmic magnum opuses such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs from a range of critical perspectives including ecofeminist, sociopolitical, new-historicist, archetypal and psychoanalytical readings. They also explore Beyzaie''s dialogue with filmic genres such as noir, different Iranian languages such as Gilaki, Iranian epics and ritual practices such as ta''ziyeh plays and javanmardi chivalry cults. Together, the chapters show how Beyzaie''s works negotiate narratives of belonging and undermine the dominant exclusionist discourses in Iran, and how they use the resources of Iranian folk and performance traditions to comment on the position of women, children, intellectuals, and minorities in society.
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Iran Between Islamic Nationalism And Secularism - The Constitutional Revolution Of 1906

by Vanessa Martin

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 With the ratification of a new constitution in December 1906, Iran embarked on a great movement of systemic and institutional change which, along with the introduction of new ideas, was to be one of the most abiding legacies of the first Iranian revolution - known as the Constitutional Revolution. This uprising was significant not only for introducing secular understandings of government, but also Islamic visions of what could constitute a national assembly. The events of the Constitutional Revolution in Tehran have been much discussed, but the provinces, despite their crucial role in the revolution, have received less attention. Here, Vanessa Martin seeks to redress this imbalance. She does so by firstly analysing the role of the Islamic debate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its relationship with secular ideas, and secondly by examining the ramifications of this debate in the main cities of Tabriz, Shiraz, Isfahan and Bushehr. When Muzaffar al-Din Shah came to power in 1896, on the assassination of his father Nasr al-Din Shah, Iran was in the midst of social and political upheaval, which culminated in the creation for the first time in Iran''s history of a constitution and a new majlis (consultative assembly). In this book, Martin looks in particular at the idea of modern Islamic government as it was conceptualized at the time; an idea which had been emerging for some time before the revolution, having its origins in the vision of the reformist pan-Islamist, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. She therefore traces the evolution of the debate around whether Iran was to be a secular or an Islamic society, or a combination of the two, together with the implications of this discourse in terms of popular perception and public opinion. By looking at the revolution outside of Tehran, she highlights the intra-elite rivalries, and the Islamic response to the Constitutional Revolution, from the moderate views of Thiqat al-Islam to the emergence of Islamic organizations and militancy. It is through this examination of Iran''s major provincial cities that Martin concludes that in each region, the Constitutional Revolution took on a character of its own. From an exploration of the elites of Shiraz, including the effective mayor, Qavam al-Mulk, to the power centre of the then governor of Isfahan, Prince Zill al-Sultan, and from the revolutionary fervor of Tabriz to the commercial centre of Bushehr, Martin sheds light on the historical, political, religious and geographical importance of these cities. By examining the interaction between Islam and secularism during this tumultuous time, Iran between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism offers a vital new approach to the understanding of a key moment in Iran''s history.
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Medieval Central Asia And The Persianate World - Iranian Tradition And Islamic Civilisation

by A.C.S. Peacock e D.G. Tor

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 Brings together a high calibre of scholars who concentrate on medieval Middle Eastern studies.
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The Practice Of Politics In Safavid Iran - Power, Religion And Rhetoric

by Colin P. Mitchell

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 A thorough investigation of the Safavid state and the significance of rhetoric, power and religion in its functioning, The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran is indispensable for all those interested in Iranian history and politics and Middle East studies.
The Plays And Films Of Bahram Beyzaie - Origins, Forms And Functions

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Piety And Politics In Qajar Iran - The Takkiyya Muâ€™Avin Al-Mulk In Kermanshah

by Nahid Massoumeh Assemi

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Iran And Persianate Culture In The Indian Ocean World

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Genealogical History In The Persianate World

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Piety And Politics In Qajar Iran - The Takkiyya Muâ€™Avin Al-Mulk In Kermanshah

by Nahid Massoumeh Assemi

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The Plays And Films Of Bahram Beyzaie - Origins, Forms And Functions

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The Safavid Dynastic Shrine - Architecture, Religion And Power In Early Modern Iran

by Kishwar Rizvi

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 The Safavid period represents an immensely rich chapter in the history of Iranian architecture. This work focuses on the shrine of Shaykh Safi, built in AD 1334, as an important template for an emergent Safavid taste.
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The Ornament Of Histories: A History Of The Eastern Islamic Lands Ad 650-1041 - The Persian Text Of Abu Saâ€˜Id Â€˜Abd Al-Hayy Gardizi

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 "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. This title offers an English translation of the original Persian text.

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