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Zoroastrians in the Economy of Yazd During the Qajar and Pahlavi I Dynasties Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Fatemeh Karimi, Abed Taghavi
In the Qajar period, Zoroastrian merchants of Iran were able to engage in commercial activities with fewer restrictions than in the past. In this article, the economic performance of the Zoroastria...
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The Indo-Iranian Approach to Greater Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 A. Mani Irannejad
With an origin in western Eurasia, the Indo-Iranian languages appeared in Greater Iran and beyond in the second millennium and were expressed widely in the first millennium BCE. Considering an earl...
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Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavation at the Achaemenid Period (Iron Age IV) Cemetery in Mersin, Semnan Province, Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Reza Naseri, Somaye Boroomandara, Andrea Cesaretti, Roberto Dan
ABSTRACT This article presents the results of the first excavation season of the Mersin cemetery, in the Semnan region, Iran. The cemetery was discovered through surface reconnaissance for the documentation of the area’s archaeological heritage before the construction of the Finesk Dam. Rescue excavations were then conducted in 2014 in three distinct areas of the necropolis. Particularly interesting
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If I Circumambulate Around Him, I Will Be Burnt: A Brass Candlestick Endowed to the Mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim, Kazimayn Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Yui Kanda
ABSTRACT This study introduces a hitherto unknown brass candlestick at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (inv. no. MW.152.1999) inscribed with an endowment inscription that indicates that it was donated to the mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim in Kazimayn, Iraq. The candlestick is analysed in depth because its inscriptions – not only the endowment one but also the poetical ones – have the potential
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Mediating between the Royal Court and the Periphery: The Zangana Family’s Brokerage in Safavid Iran (1501–1722) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Akihiko Yamaguchi
ABSTRACT To control the unruly Kurdish tribal confederates on the western frontier of their kingdom, successive Safavid shahs of Iran tried strengthening their personal ties with the Kurdish emirs by various measures, such as educating young members of the Kurdish ruling families in the Safavid court and recruiting some into their royal guard. The formation and maintenance of such close lord–vassal
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The Imperial Legacy of Nader in Transoxiana (Turan) as Reflected in Early Manghit Chronicles Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa
ABSTRACT In 1740, Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) conquered the Central Asian Khanate of Bokhara. He gave de facto control of the Bokharan polity to a vassal clan, the Manghits, who established their own dynasty after the collapse of Nader’s empire. This article examines the imperial legacy of Nader as reflected in the two chronicles of Manghit history from the eighteenth century, the Tohfeh-ye Khani by
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Discovering a Fire Temple in Qalʿe-ye Dokhtar of Bazeh Hur and Some Remarks on Ādur Burzēn-Mihr Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki
ABSTRACT Due to three seasons of archaeological excavations at Qalʿe-ye Dokhtar of Bazeh Hur in north-eastern Iran, remains of a fire temple were discovered shedding significant light on the ritual architecture of Iran during late antiquity. The Qalʿe-ye Dokhtar temple resembling the western Sasanian fire temples is composed of a main chahartaq which was surrounded by a circumambulatory. This fire
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Trips to the King, Taxation, and the New Year in the Persepolis Fortification Archive Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Rhyne King
ABSTRACT Trips to and from the court of King Darius I are richly documented from 509 to 493 BCE thanks to the Persepolis Fortification Archive. This paper analyzes patterns in the timing of these trips and demonstrates that trips to and from the court of the King peaked around the Persian New Year. The peak around the New Year is especially pronounced for trips between the King and distant regions
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Chalcolithic Painted Pottery of the Sialk III Period: Quantifying Stylistic Continuities and Changes on the Northern Central Plateau Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Nolwen Rol, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lisa Wolff-Heger, Hassan Akbari, Morteza Hessari, Susan Pollock, Daniel Schäfer
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the Varamin Plain to the southeast of Tehran has been the focus of intensified archaeological work, with surveys and excavations yielding new insights into the region’s settlement history. New material from the dynamic network of Chalcolithic sites on the Jajrud alluvial fan now offers a more solid basis to assess the links between the Varamin Plain and the site of
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A New Decorated Bronze Belt from Orumiyeh Region, North-Western Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Behrouz Khanmohammadi, Annarita Stefania Bonfanti, Roberto Dan
ABSTRACT This paper discusses a bronze belt currently kept in Orumiyeh Museum; its distinctive morphology and decoration are closely paralleled by another belt found in the area of Gargul, Piranshahr, not so long ago. The iconography of this belt shows a possible Assyrian influence, while the artefact itself is clearly of Southern Caucasian derivation; regarding a particular feature concerning its
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A Medieval Stonepaste Ceramic Production Site in Moshkin Tepe, Iran: Ceramics, Wasters, and Manufacturing Equipment Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Moujan Matin
Stonepaste (or fritware) is an artificial ceramic body, generally thought to have been produced from the eleventh/twelth century in the Islamic lands. Stonepaste production radically transformed th...
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The Origins and Intentions of the Anglo-Persian Agreement 1919: A Reassessment Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Philip Henning Grobien
ABSTRACT The Anglo-Persian Agreement has never been anything other than controversial. Outwardly, an agreement negotiated by traitors in secrecy, it was to give the British government control over the administration, finance, and military in Iran after the First World War. Much maligned as a plan for a protectorate, the criticism has largely obscured the narrative which shows that this agreement can
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The Old Avesta and Birth of Iranian Identity Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 A. Mani Irannejad
ABSTRACT Zaraθuštra is known as the author of Gāθās and the founder of the ancient Iranian religion. However, his historicity, time and homeland have been matters of controversy amongst scholars throughout the ages. It is argued that the socio-cultural and archeological evidence in conjunction with available texts enables us to delimit the relatively large time span estimated for the time of the Old
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The Cylinder Seals of Qareh Tepe in Sagzabad, Iron Age II and III Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Mostafa Dehpahlavan, Zahra Alinezhad
During the four seasons of excavation (2015–2019) in the newly-discovered Iron Age II and III eastern cemetery of Qareh Tepe in Sagzabad, 40 cylinder seals were found in the trench 12 in 10 graves....
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The Iconography of Dancers and Their Garments on Sasanid Silver Vessels (Case Study: Four Silver Vessels with Different Features) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Esmaeil Sangari, Zohreh Noori, Amirhossein Moghaddas, Aliakbar Abbasi, Reza Dehghani
Made in the midst of the Sasanid period, Sasanid silver vessels are one of the most important relics of the period that along with abundant archaeological data, convey valuable insights into the cu...
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The Image of the Sasanian King in the Perso-Arabic Historical Tradition Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Shahram Jalilian, Touraj Daryaee
Throughout the Sasanian history the masses as well as the dignitaries, the magi and noble families strongly believed that the king possesses certain qualities that are not to be found in other indi...
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Typological Study of Metal Pins in Northwestern Iran Based on the Bayazid Abad (Bayazi Awa) Archaeological Assemblage Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Sheler Amelirad, Behroz Khanmohamadi
The Bayazid Abad hypogeum has yielded a remarkable assemblage of artefacts, 120 of which were metal pins of various categories, dating from Middle Bronze Age II to Iron Age II. This collection show...
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Vigol and Harāskān Fire Temple: Archaeological Evidence About the Veneration of Fire in the Center of the Iranian Plateau During the Sasanian Period Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mohsen Javeri, Majid Montazer Zohouri
The historical site of Vigol and Harāskān is located in Isfahan province (Iran). Archaeological studies showed that this site was inhabited at least from the Sasanian period to the Islamic middle a...
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Visiting Tol-e Tahmachi, a Fifth Millennium BCE Settlement in the Persian Gulf Littoral, Southwest Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Abbas Moghaddam, Elnaz Rashidian
Previous archaeological investigations of the northern coast of the Persian Gulf have assumed that it had an unstable landscape due to successive fluctuations and sea-level changes in the mid-Holoc...
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The So-Called “Fravašis” and the “Heaven and Hell” Paintings, and the Cult of Nana in Panjikent Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Michael Shenkar
The article discusses the well-known painting from the outer courtyard of Temple II in Panjikent, which has been unanimously identified as depicting a group of fravašis. It argues that the painting...
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New Archaeological Excavations of the Jahangir and Gowriyeh Manor Houses in the West of the Sassanid Empire Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Leila Khosravi
The Jahangir and Gowriyeh monuments, located in Ilam province, were excavated from 2015 through 2019 because of the construction of the Kangir Dam. The lack of information about the date of constru...
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Mydan Mishan: A Newly Found Parthian Bas-Relief in the Alvand Range, Hamadan, Western Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 E. Hemati Azandaryani, L. Gregoratti, Y. Mohammadifar, Hamid Didari
Hamadan province in western Iran has always been of particular archaeological significance mainly because of its administrative centre Ecbatana, modern Hamadan. In 2005 a bas-relief dating to the P...
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From Soil to Domes: Vernacular Architecture and Construction Techniques in Esfahak, South Khurasan Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Edoardo Paolo Ferrari
This article examines construction techniques of earthen vernacular architecture, with a particular focus on traditional construction processes of mud brick vaults and domes in contemporary Iran. T...
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Technological Heritage of Persian Windmills Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Moslem Mishmastnehi
Persian windmills are usually referred to as the earliest windmills in the history of technology. These windmills, well-known for their vertical axle design, are distributed over the Irano-Afghan b...
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The So-called Achaemenid Capitals and the Problem of Royal Court Residence Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Ali Bahadori, Negin Miri
The landscape in which the so-called Achaemenid capitals – specifically Pasargadae, Susa and Persepolis – are located, may be reflections of the political structure of the Achaemenid Empire. Follow...
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‘Abbas Mirza, A Counternarrative Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-07-30 Mehdi Mousavi
For two centuries, the image of the Crown Prince ʽAbbas Mirza (1789–1833) has remained unblemished in Iranian history. He has been portrayed as perfect in character, progressive in advancing the ca...
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Purity and Polemics: Zoroastrian Women’s Bodies as Sites of Difference and Contestation in Early Islamic Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
Zoroastrian menstrual purity laws served as one of the most salient markers of socio-religious distinction during the tumultuous early centuries of Islamic rule in the Iranian world. This article s...
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Indo-Persian Manuscripts Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 A.C.S. Peacock
(2021). Indo-Persian Manuscripts. Iran: Vol. 59, Indo-Persian Manuscripts, pp. 147-150.
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Remapping the World in a Fifteenth-Century Cosmography: Genres and Networks Between Deccan India and Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Vivek Gupta
ABSTRACT This article examines codicological evidence for the presence of an illustrated Persian cosmography (‘ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt) (British Library Add 23564) at the fifteenth-century Bahmani court (1347–1538) of Deccan India. It traces this manuscript's itinerary from the dating of its colophon 1441, to its place in Bahmani Bidar, to a subimperial Mughal library, to its move to ‘Adil Shahi Bijapur
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‘Iyani, A Shirazi Poet and Historian in the Bahmani Deccan Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 A.C.S. Peacock
ABSTRACT This paper examines MS D. 92 of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras/Chennai, which contains the works of ‘Iyani, a late fifteenth century Shirazi poet and historian. ‘Iyani had migrated to the Deccan, and wrote in Persian in the Bahmani sultanate (1347–1528), receiving the patronage of both Sultan Mahmud Shah (r. 1482–924) and Habib al-Din Muhibballah, a descendant of the Sufi
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So Close and Yet Often so Far Away: The History of India as Told by Historians in Iran Around 1500 Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Philip Bockholt
ABSTRACT Khvandamir’s general history Habib al-Siyar (Beloved of Careers), one of the major historiographical narratives of the Persianate world, was composed for the founder of the Safavid dynasty in Iran, Shah Ismaʿil, in the 1520s. Some years later, the author ideologically reshaped his work at Babur’s Timurid-Mughal court in Agra. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the book was widely
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Akbar's History of the Timurids Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Charles Melville
ABSTRACT 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. The result, the Tarikh-i Khandan-i Timuriyya, an impressively large and heavily illustrated manuscript, now preserved in Patna, with 132 full-page paintings on 332 folios, has not received the same level of attention as Akbar's other
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Revisiting a Royal Sultanate Manuscript from Bengal: The Sharafnama of Nasir al-Din Nusrat Shah of 938/1531–2 Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Emily Shovelton
ABSTRACT The subject of this paper is a striking copy of the Sharafnama by Nizami dated 938/1531–2, made for the ruler of Bengal, Nusrat Shah (r.1519–32). This slim volume contains nine vibrant paintings that show the assimilation of both Indic and Persian artistic traditions: adaptations common to several fifteenth-century manuscripts from the Indian sultanates. However, there are no other surviving
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Hilali and Mir ‘Ali: Sunnis among the Shi‘is, or Shi‘is among the Sunnis between the Shaybanids, Safavids and the Mughals Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Firuza Melville
ABSTRACT In 1788 Ephraim Pote, a British merchant in Patna, sent a large portion of the manuscript collection which formerly belonged to Colonel of the East India Company Antoine Polier. Among those manuscripts there was a Divan by Badr al-Din Hilali, who was executed by the Uzbek Sultan ‘Ubaydallah right after the conquest of Herat in 1529. The calligrapher responsible for compiling the impressive
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Textual Culture Between India and Iran: The Reproduction of Verse in Nasrabadi’s Biographical Anthology Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 James White
ABSTRACT Until now, the textual history of the poetry transmitted in Persian literary anthologies has solely been the concern of editors preparing works for print publication. This article contends that an investigation of variance is also of relevance for writing the cultural history of how anthologists encountered, manipulated, and published poems in the manuscript age. While a shortage of independent
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Collections Within Collections: An Analysis of Tipu Sultan’s Library Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Ursula Sims-Williams
ABSTRACT The library of Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most important in the history of South Asian Islamic collections. Unlike many collections which can be regarded as dynastic libraries, Tipu’s was relatively newly-formed. Most of the books had not been acquired before the mid-eighteenth century but nevertheless came from diverse sources. This gives the collection an added importance in a specifically
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Staging Power: Visual Strategies of Kingship in the Windsor Castle ‘Ishqnama Illustrated Manuscript Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 Parul Singh
ABSTRACT The paper examines the Windsor Castle ‘Ishqnama, an autobiographical account of the amorous entanglements by the last king of Awadh, Wajid ‘Ali Shah (r. 1847–56), as one of the strategies for projecting an image of an ideal masculine ruler through the control over the bodies of “his” women—the paris (fairies) in his Parikhana, an establishment of women singers and dancers, many of whom were
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Preliminary Report on the Survey of Hajjiabad-Varamin, a Site of the Konar Sandal Settlement Network (Jiroft, Kerman, Iran) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Nasir Eskandari, François Desset, Mojgan Shafiee, Meysam Shahsavari, Salman Anjamrouz, Irene Caldana, Ali Daneshi, Ali Shahdadi, Massimo Vidale
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to introduce the large prehistoric site of Hajjiabad-Varamin, its changes in time and the first discoveries made there, in the specific literature on the early Bronze Age of the south-eastern Iranian Plateau. The first part of the article describes the site, its present damaged conditions, the periodisation we adopted and the complex topographic shifts and changes
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Change and Continuity: Safavid Administration in Eighteenth-century Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-02 András Barati
The article aims to deepen knowledge concerning the continuity of the Safavid system of central bureaucracy following the fall of the Safavids through the presentation of the administrative history...
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Lost and Found: The Ilkhanid Tiles of the Pir-i Bakran Mausoleum (Linjan, Isfahan) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Ana Marija Grbanovic
ABSTRACT The mausoleum of Pir-i Bakran (1298–1313) is an exceptional Ilkhanid monument, which exemplifies different types of architectural decoration. These rich and exuberant revetments have been subject to extensive research: scholarly concern with the mausoleum focused on the distinctions between the monument's numerous constructive and decorative phases and its stuccos, wall paintings, and applied
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The Objects of Loyalty in the Early Mongol Empire (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Tobias Jones
ABSTRACT The world empire created by the Mongols in the thirteenth century was based upon a system of loyalties to different figures, families and institutions. This article explains some of the key “objects of loyalty” at the heart of the Mongol Empire and at a regional level. These loyalties, when acting in concert, served as the glue which bound the Mongol Empire together, but when they came into
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An Old Man, a Garden, and an Assembly of Assassins: Legends and Realities of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Shafique N. Virani
ABSTRACT For centuries, Marco Polo's legends of the Old Man of the Mountain, his paradise garden, and his assembly of assassins have fascinated readers. Modern scholarship, however, has demonstrated that these are a fanciful history of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims of the state of Alamut. This article analyses the causes and motivations for the persistence of these tales and their trappings. The trope
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The Equestrian Relief of Hung-e Azhdar: A Historical Memory for the Dynastic Lineages of Elymais Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Davide Salaris
ABSTRACT During the Parthian era (ca. 238 BC–224 AD), rupestrian art was mainly the product of the patronage of kings, independent aristocrats, subjugated vassals, or peripheral rulers, which often developed independently from the main authorities conventions, shaping a proper tradition through the canonisation of certain motifs. In the minor kingdom of Elymais, the socio-political situation seems
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A Survey on Parthian Pithos Cemeteries on The Western Bank of The Little Zab River, Sardasht Region, Northwest Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Salah Salimi, Mostafa Dehpahlavan, John MacGinnis
ABSTRACT Sardasht is a mountainous region located in the northern part of the Zagros. The Little Zab river, has had an important role in the formation of archaeological sites in the region. During field studies conducted along the eastern bank of the Iranian Little Zab we found seven pithos cemeteries, as well as archaeological sites that belong to multiple cultures. Unfortunately, all the cemeteries
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Modernity, Borders and Maps: Iran’s Ability to Advocate for its Borders During the Reign of Naser al-Din Shah Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Philip Henning Grobien
ABSTRACT Iran’s encounters with Britain and Russia after the turn of the nineteenth century necessitated coming to terms with British and Russian imperialism, modern ideas of border implementation and the modern skills of surveying and mapping, all of which were to perform roles in modifying Iran’s pre-modern frontiers. Iran’s engagement with this imperial modernity proved to be an even greater challenge
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Excavation at Tahyaq – A Subterranean Rock-Cut Architecture Complex in Khomein, Markazi Province, Iran Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Esmaeil Sharahi, Hossein Sedighian, Meisam Nikzad
ABSTRACT Subterranean rock-cut architecture is a known and frequently used type of architecture in Iran and the world. This type of architecture is documented with residential, defensive and ritual characteristics and was introduced and well studied in different parts of Iran. Recently, one of the such architectural features was excavated in the Tayhaq region of Markazi province in Iran. This subterranean
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Legitimising the Khan: Rashid al-Din’s Ideological Project from a Literary Aspect Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-28 Sara Mirahmadi
ABSTRACT The world history of Rashid al-Din, known as Jamiʿ al-Tavarikh, was written in the fourteenth century primarily to record the history of Chingizid dynasty. However, the book turned out to be one of the most significant projects of the Ilkhanid era such that even now, after six centuries still enthrals its readers. This article attempts to show how Rashid al-Din sought to legitimise the Ilkhanids
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Retraction: Sequential Casting Using Multiple Materials: A Bronze Age “Royal Sceptre” from the Halil Rud Valley (Kerman, Iran) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-22
(2021). Retraction: Sequential Casting Using Multiple Materials: A Bronze Age “Royal Sceptre” from the Halil Rud Valley (Kerman, Iran) Iran: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. i-i.
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The Political Configuration of Late Ilkhanid Iran: A Case Study of the Chubanid Amirate (738–758/1337–1357) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Michael Hope
ABSTRACT The disintegration of the Ilkhanate following the death of its last effective ruler, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (d. 736/1335), precipitated the emergence of a number of regional dynasties, not least of all the Chubanids who claimed the former Mongolian core territories of Azerbaijan and Mughan in north-western Iran. Between 738/1337 and 758/1357, the Chubanids worked strenuously to reconstitute
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Assessing the Causation of Tradesmen Rebellion in Tabriz Through Institutionalisation Approach During Shah-Tahmasp Safavi Ruling (1571–1573 AD) Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Zahrasadat Keshavarz, Asghar Montazerolghaem, Shabnamsadat Hashemi
ABSTRACT In sociology, social institutions constitute the most essential institutions, exhibiting their functionality in different aspects in the society, as to cope with the evaluation of social disorders’ management at mega-scale. During Safavid era, based on rational reactive sequential pattern, leading to chain reactions, the core of a special trade institution was established in Iran’s traditional
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Challenging Narratives of “Missionary” Ismaʿilism in Buyid Iran: Reconsidering the Sira of al-Muʾayyad fī al-Din al-Shirazi through Socio-economic Contextualisation Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Marc Czarnuszewicz
ABSTRACT The Sira of al-Muʾayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi (d. 1078 C.E. / 470 A.H.) offers a first-hand account of the politics of religion in South-West Iran in the 11th century. However, the limited studies of this text to date do not fully explore how al-Muʾayyad's activities related to the socio-economic situation of the localities they targeted. In light of the lack of information, both in the Sira
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Scientific Knowledge and Religious Milieu in Qajar Iran: Negotiating Muslim and European Renaissance Medicine in the Subtleties of Healing Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Denis Hermann, Fabrizio Speziale
ABSTRACT Historians of sciences in the Muslim world have often overlooked the role of religious circles as places for the production and circulation of scientific materials. By focusing on the case of Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani (d. 1288/1871), this article explores how scientific learning is dealt with in the work of a leading master of the Shaykhi school. This article looks in particular at the Daqa’iq
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More Early Bronze Age Seal Impressions from Chogha Maran, Western Central Zagros Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Ali Khayani, Kamal Aldin Niknami
ABSTRACT This paper studies the glyptic origins of the seals impressed on the clay sealings Early Bronze Age trash deposits at Chogha Maran in the western Central Zagros and correlates the origins with the functions of these clay objects in order to analyse the role of the seals and sealings in the Chogha Maran administration. The examination suggests that the clay sealings were used at Chogha Maran
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Professor David B. Stronach, OBE 1931–2020 Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Michael Roaf, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
(2021). Professor David B. Stronach, OBE 1931–2020. Iran: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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A Forgotten Money Heist: The 1746 Mission of Nadir Shah’s Chief Merchant in Russia Revisited Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Kioumars Ghereghlou
ABSTRACT This present article examines aspects of Iran’s trade and diplomatic relations with Imperial Russia during the reign of the Afsharid Nadir Shah (r. 1735–1747) focusing on a previously unpublished letter from the Zand Karim Khan (r. 1751–1779) to Empress Catherine II (r. 1762–1796). The letter sheds light on a little-known trade dispute between Iran and Imperial Russia that broke out shortly
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Probing the Margins in Search of Elamite Children Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Yasmina Wicks
ABSTRACT Around two decades ago, following on from attempts to redress the long-standing neglect of the lives and contributions of women in antiquity, archaeologists and historians around the world started to reframe their treatments of past societies to incorporate children in larger-scale social, economic, political and religious processes. While scholars of the ancient Near East were much slower
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Early Islamic Torpedo Jars from Siraf: Scientific Analyses of the Clay Fabric and Source of Indian Ocean Transport Containers Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Roberta Tomber, Michela Spataro, Seth Priestman
ABSTRACT This paper concerns Sasanian to Early Islamic period transport containers, usually lined with bitumen, known as Torpedo jars. Widely distributed throughout the western Indian Ocean, with outliers as far west as Egypt and to the east in Indonesia, they are an important marker of maritime exchange. Their area of production is thought to be central/southern Iraq or southwestern Iran, the latter
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Shahnameh-ye Davari; An Ode to a Dying Art? Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Masssoumeh (Nahid) Assemi
ABSTRACT Shahnameh-ye Davari, dating to 1272 (1856) is one of the last Shahnamehs, copied and illustrated in the traditional style. It is kept at the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran under accession number 599. It is a sumptuously decorated manuscript on a par with courtly productions and has sixty-eight illustrations, yet it is not a commissioned work. It was created by Mohammad ibn Vesal (1822–1865)
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Göbekly-Depe in Margiana Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 V.A. Gaibov, A.B. Nikitin
ABSTRACT The fortress of Göbekly-depe by the North border of the oasis of Merv, 32 km to NW of the site of Old Merv, is especially significant for the history of Iranian fortification, as it was built in the Parthian period, presumably in the 1st century C.E., and then several times reconstructed under the first Sasanians in the 3rd and the 4th centuries. Approximately in the middle of the 4th century
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Impact of Religious Commandments on Residential Architecture of Zoroastrians, Case Study: Dasturān District in Yazd City Iran (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 Hassan Karimian, Fatemeh Karimi, Simin Karimian
ABSTRACT Scholars that have focused on cities as the subject of their research, account the worldview and religion as the most significant factors in formation of urban spaces and architectural compositions. This is indeed why historical cities are known to reflect beliefs and cultures of their constructors. The influence of Islam on Iranian ancient cities is studied considerably, though research on