Iranian Studies - Articles List

Rhetorical criticism of "Pronoun" with emphasis on some aspects of the subject in the story of Dahhak (with emphasis on the secondary meanings of "certainty" and "exclusivity and exclusivity")

Muhammad Choopani; Ghafar Borjsaz

Volume 15, Issue 1 , July 2025, , Pages 87-106

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.367874.1245

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Introduction: Rhetoric is the art of effective communication, tailored to the audience's situation and status. The term "speech" encompasses all verbal and semantic components. Purpose:This ... Read More

A multi-faceted study of the history of Neyshabour from the beginning to the Mongol invasion

Omid Majd; Hadi Bakaeian

Volume 15, Issue 1 , July 2025, , Pages 107-124

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2025.376753.1282

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As one of the metropolises of the Islamic world, Neishabur has played an important role in the political, social, economic and cultural developments of Iran and the Islamic world between ... Read More

Survey of Information Mughal Empire Audience Hall and its Effect on the Safavid Hypostyle

Ahmad Heidari

Volume 15, Issue 1 , July 2025, , Pages 125-154

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.366739.1237

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Courtyard, corridor and iwan are among the elements that have played an important role in information the living spaces of a residential unit, both private and public. The public part ... Read More

Reasons for believing in good and bad times in the Qajar era and its political and social consequences

nilofar mosavi; Hassan Zandiyeh; amirtymour rafiei; hamidreza safakish

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.357821.1194

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The Belief in astronomical laws and the influence of heavenly objects on human life is the Iranian’s oldest beliefs.various aspects of political life and the society of the people ... Read More

Political relations between Sistan and Makoran from the 3rd century to the 6th century AH

abdolah safarzaie; Marziyeh Balochi

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 21-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.353788.1176

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Sistan and Makran were in the southeast of the lands of the Eastern Caliphate from the 3rd to 6th centuries AH and were much larger in terms of territory than today. At the beginning ... Read More

Comparitive reading of story and movie “white nights” by Dostoevsky with the approach of Neo-Formalism

Shirzad Tayefi; Poorya Mirakhorli

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 39-63

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.365551.1229

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studies in Iran are facing a huge gap due to the lack of attention to appropriate theoretical foundations, which has led to the lack of coverage of this interdisciplinary topic among ... Read More

Discourse of Shariat and Sufism in Safavid Iran With a look at cat and mouse writing

sima rahmanifar; hossein ghasemi

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 65-82

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2022.348896.1152

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Examining ancient fiction texts as a source for reflecting the political, social and cultural conditions of the past ages can, in addition to being a confirmation of other historiography ... Read More

Inscribing of Zoroaster's poems; Before or after Alexander's invasion?

Sorena Firouzi; Mahsa Veisi

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 83-102

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354928.1184

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Regarding the background of the inscribing of Zoroaster's poems, there are two general views: archaic and contemporary. The archaic view is documented in Pahlavi texts and reflected ... Read More

Factors behind the spread of the Qadiriyya sect in Kurdistan

Nasser Sedqhi; Vali Dinparast; Razwan Arif Abbas

Volume 14, Issue 4 , February 2025, , Pages 103-119

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.358615.1199

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One of the Sufi order in Islam is the Qadiriyya sect, whose founder is Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani (died 561 AH). In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Qadiriyya sect spread in Iraq, ... Read More

Position and Importance of Versified Histories of Safavid dynasty and Description of Their Historiographical Features

Javad Rashki Aliabad; jamshid noroozi

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 1-26

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.349185.1155

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The Mongols age was followed by the flourishment of the versified histories like Shahnameh and Eskandarnameh. In this regard, during the Safavid dynasty, a considerable number of historical ... Read More

A Comparative Study of the Story Rostam in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Ram in Ramayana Epic

Yosofali Beiranvand; Mina Khosravi

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 52-27

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.352136.1171

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The epic and mythological narratives of the Indo-Iranian peoples have been influenced by each other due to their common origins and long-standing cultural relations. The narrations ... Read More

Britain and the Arab tribes of Khuzestan (1925-1941)

Noor al-Din Nemati; Arwin Ghaemian

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 53-74

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2024.371126.1254

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Britain and the Arab tribes of Khuzestan (1925-1941)AbstractIn the early 20th century, the British government assumed a significant role in shaping the internal landscape of Iran through ... Read More Britain and the Arab tribes of Khuzestan (1925-1941)AbstractIn the early 20th century, the British government assumed a significant role in shaping the internal landscape of Iran through the acquisition of oil concessions and the establishment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. However, the eruption of the First World War (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917) posed a formidable challenge to the continuation of British hegemony over the operational areas of the oil company. Consequently, London embarked on formulating a novel strategy that accorded utmost importance to the consolidation of power within Iran, considering it as the cornerstone of its foreign policy. The ascension of Reza Shah (1925-1941) and his authoritarian approach towards modernization and the centralization of political authority inevitably clashed with the interests of the Arab tribes, leading to population displacement and extensive migration of the Khuzestani tribes to neighboring Arab countries. This study endeavors to address the following question: What was the nature of the relationship between Reza Shah and the Arab tribes of Khuzestan? The central hypothesis posited in this research contends that the support strategy employed by the British government and the oil company, aimed at concentrating political power and fostering modernization in Iran, proved effective in mitigating population displacement and large-scale migration of Arab tribes to neighboring nations.Keyword: Britain, Iran, oil, Arab tribes.AbstractIn the early 20th century, the British government assumed a significant role in shaping the internal landscape of Iran through the acquisition of oil concessions and the establishment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. However, the eruption of the First World War (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917) posed a formidable challenge to the continuation of British hegemony over the operational areas of the oil company. Consequently, London embarked on formulating a novel strategy that accorded utmost importance to the consolidation of power within Iran, considering it as the cornerstone of its foreign policy.

Application of Zar ritual in the banks and back banks of the Persian Gulf

hamid asadpour; Farajolah Ahmadi; hossein Eskandari

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 75-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.349984.1162

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AbstractMigrations have had political, social, economic, and cultural effects, either intentionally or unintentionally. As the effectiveness of the migration phenomenon, especially ... Read More AbstractMigrations have had political, social, economic, and cultural effects, either intentionally or unintentionally. As the effectiveness of the migration phenomenon, especially in the cultural aspect, is one of the important and significant issues. As an important waterway, the Persian Gulf has been a meeting place of various cultures not only politically and economically, but also culturally. One of these cases is the generally unwanted migration of people of African descent, especially from the eastern parts of this continent, to the shores and rear shores of the Persian Gulf centuries ago and especially in the last two centuries. In addition to being influenced by the residents of these areas, this group has also had a deep impact on the culture of these areas. One of the most important of these effects is the formation and spread of a phenomenon called zar, which is considered one of the subcultures in these areas. In the term, zar is a kind of confusion and distress of people, which they considered to be the result of the actions of evil spirits. The formation and wide spread of the Zar phenomenon has many reasons. The basic question of this research is that what are the causes of the spread and continuation of the zar phenomenon in the shores and backshores of the Persian Gulf? It seems that the lack of a safe haven and the lack of logical reasoning to solve the problems of the residents of the shores and backshores of the Persian Gulf on the one hand and living with many problems in the southern regions of Iran, the many trips of sailors from these areas to the African coasts and the settlement of African descendants on the coasts On the other hand, the Persian Gulf has caused the spread and development of a phenomenon called Zar. Also, this phenomenon has had harmony and similarity with some cultural structures of these areas. This research has been done by relying on library sources and field observations and with descriptive analytical method.

Methodology of the practical strategy of architectural planning in Iranian Islamic culture

majid ahmad pour; yahya bouzarinejad

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 97-112

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.361039.1204

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The current research aims to investigate the "methodology of architectural planning in Iranian Islamic culture". Because in a sense, architecture can be considered as "wisdom"; Because ... Read More

Ahurānῑ: Ahura’s Wives? Attributes of waters in Yasna 38 and its Zand

Ali Shahidi; Soulmaz Javadpour

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 113-130

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2024.382933.1310

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Yasna 38, which is the middle Yasn of the Haft (seven) Ha(t), is devoted to the praise of waters and women/goddesses. In the third and fifth paragraphs of this Yasna, some attributes ... Read More

Investigating the Iranshahr celebrations in the poetry of poets of the 4th century relying on the Yatimeh Al-Dahr of Thaalebi

kaveh Ghanbari; Aliakbar Forati

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 131-149

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.361903.1208

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With the defeat of the Sâsaniân authoritarian government, the Middle Persian language gradually faded and disappeared in the Divan (Government organizations). The Pahlavi ... Read More

An Examination of Panegyrics to Imam Ali (AS) in the Works of Osman Kemali, the Turkic-Origin Poet

Homeyra Zomorodi; Bülent akdağ Akdağ

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 1-23

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354393.1181

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This study delves into the works of the Turkic poet Osman Kemal Efendi, commonly known as Osman Kemali. He was a devoted disciple of Jalal al-Din Rumi and a memorizer of the Quran. ... Read More

A Comparison on Manu`s identity recorded in Pancatantra “The Story of a Tortoise fallen from the Wood” to Ibn-Arabi`s Al-Insan Al-Kamel according to the perennial philosophy

Somayeh Mashayekh; Zohreh Zarshenas

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 24-42

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354945.1185

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Sogdian manuscripts are sorted on different subjects, Sogdian Tales could be distinguished as a genre among them. Henning was the pioneer researcher who traced the Footsteps of Panchatantra ... Read More Sogdian manuscripts are sorted on different subjects, Sogdian Tales could be distinguished as a genre among them. Henning was the pioneer researcher who traced the Footsteps of Panchatantra stories back in Sogdian Tales. Brief narrations from the main story are one of their characteristics. Fragment SI 5704,(a document originally based on Nikolai Nikolaevich Krotkov collection which has been later denoted to the Academy of Science) has been detected as a Sogdian short narration of the 13th story of the first Book of Panchatantra is “The story of a tortoise fallen from the wood”. In the Sanskrit text Viṣṇuśarman, an octogenarian Brahmin who is known as the original Autor of the Book, cites a wise quotation from a person called “Manu”, which is not cited in the Sogdiann Tale. According to Hindu Myths, there are many terms refering to,”Manu”: He is the archetypal man in Indo-Germanic languages its meaning sways between “man” and “Human” .There are also 14 mythical rulers of the World named Manu which will rule over the World a Manvantara. The seventh Manu corresponds to the Biblical and Quranic figure Noah. Each Manu rules a Manvantara which is 306,720,000 years. At our age the seventh Manu is the mythical ruler of the World. In Monier Williams Dictionary, the meaning of Manu is addressed as “The man par excellence” this very same definition is used by Ibn Arabi to describe the “Khalif” or the Term الانسان الکامل is the reason of the creation. This paper addresses the meaning to identify the identification of “Manu” with Ibn-Arabi`s “الانسان الکامل” according to the Perennial Philosophy which is usually taken to indicate that some sort of continuous Theme runs throughout the history of philosophy, that certain enduring and lasting truths are recognizable in the philosophical writings of all historical periods by Tracing MANU`s real Identity. 2- Tracing Manu`s etymology in Indo-Germanic Languages. 3- Proof his identity back in Sanskrit sacred soursec.4- Searching an Alter Ego for him. 5- finding his relation to Al-īnsān Al-kāmel reagarding to him as first Man and Adam the first Man, as a Khalīf in Ibn Arabis thoughts.

From Zopyrus to the Christian Torturing King; The Motif of Deception in Four Historical and Literary Narratives

Mahmoud Fazilat; Abdolreza Seif; Arad Gholami

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 43-58

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.361312.1205

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The roots of many literary stories can be found in historical narratives. In this research, we focus on four historical and literary narratives that have a special type of deception ... Read More

Land tenure policies of the Qajar government in Zanjan based on Max Weber’s patrimonial state theory

Hasan Rostami; Abbas ghadimigheydari

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 59-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.352114.1170

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During the years of constitutionalism, khamse region centered on Zanjan was one of the centers of crisis in the country and due to its proximity to important areas of Tehran and Tabriz ... Read More During the years of constitutionalism, khamse region centered on Zanjan was one of the centers of crisis in the country and due to its proximity to important areas of Tehran and Tabriz and the competition of political groups, it spent years of unrest. Meanwhile, in addition to the political crises of constitutionalism, the enmity of the nobility of the region caused many disturbances.According to the policies of the Qajar patrimonialism government during the Naseri and Mozaffari eras, in the years leading to the constitution, the elite and urban landed gentry of Zanjan (Jahanshah Khan Amirafshar, Zulfiqar Khan Asad al-Dawlah) took over each other’s regions and caused many conflicts in Zanjan and They created Tehran.The basic issue of this research is the relationship between the Qajar governance model and the rivalries and conflicts of the landed aristocracy of Zanjan and the consequences and results of these policies and rivalries. According to the model of the patrimonial government, during the period of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, by selling and giving khalese lands to influential people and top groups, the necessary conditions were provided to acquire other lands in the khamse region, and due to the weakness of the executive institutions of Qajar and Those in power in Tehran and Zanjan did not fulfill the wishes of the people.In the following decades, this defeat paved the way for pursuing the demands of the Zanjan landowner nobility, and this time the descendants of nobility were determined to recapture the lands of khamse region, and a period of instability and insecurity arose in Zanjan. The result of these policies and the inefficiencies of the Qajar government and the executive elements in Tehran and Zanjan was the hardship and homelessness of the people. The present article has investigated the issue by collecting library and documentary data and using original sources such as newspapers in a descriptive-explanatory way.

Critical-Analytical Review of the Story of Bahram Gur in Shahnameh and Haft Pekir from a Moral-Educational Point of View

Mansoureh Shahriyari

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 81-100

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2024.382026.1308

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The hands of history are the source of the majority of the protagonists in our lyrical, epic, dramatic, and didactic literature. Bahram Gur is one of these characters, whose rule in ... Read More

Akhtaran's course in the Hamidi Maghamat

Mohammad Amir Mashhadhi; Sara Nezamdoost

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 101-116

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.357951.1195

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The sixth century is the peak of the use of astronomical terms in Persian poetry and prose. One of the most prominent and prominent works in the use of terms and information of astronomy ... Read More

The culture of polo players; Analyzing polo game among Iranian people

Abbas Ali Rezaei Nia; Mehdi Mousavinia

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2024, , Pages 117-138

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.355152.1187

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A part of the identity and culture of the people of Iran has been preserved in the framework of native and local games. In Iran land, many local and diverse sports are performed in ... Read More A part of the identity and culture of the people of Iran has been preserved in the framework of native and local games. In Iran land, many local and diverse sports are performed in various ceremonies. Among these games that have gained a national aspect in Iranian culture is the game of polo, which has been passed down from one generation to the next and continues to exist. Polo has a high place in Iranian culture and has gone beyond a mere game and is connected with the value and intellectual system of Iranian society. Our understanding of the polo game relies more on historical texts, literature, and artifacts. But the gap that can be seen in this field is the examination of the phenomena and evidence of polo games from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage. Therefore, the purpose of the present article is to know the place, importance, and explanation of the polo match as one of the components of identity in the culture of Iranian people with a descriptive-analytical method. In order to achieve this goal, the game of polo has been considered in various fields of oral traditions, social customs, and performing arts. First, the toponyms that are connected with polo have been checked. Then, the evidence of playing polo among native and local games has been discussed. And it tried to identify the signs of polo and to express its similarities and differences among different regions. The result of the research showed that the polo game was customary not only among the nobles and elders but also among the ordinary people of Iran. Eleven places related to polo, as well as holding it in different regions of Iran, both on horseback and on foot, are a sign of people's deep connection with this game. The polo match has played an effective role not only as a national game but also as an efficient cultural element in the cultural and social life of Iranian society.This game has reflected the attitudes of Iranians in people's lives and has contributed to the continuity of their cultural traditions.

Considerations in the text and margins of Attar's tazkira al-Awliya

Hamidreza Fahandezhsaadi; Abdolreza seif

Volume 14, Issue 1 , June 2024, , Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354717.1183

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Tazkira al-Awliyâ is one of the first books in Persian language, which mentions the sayings and biographies of ascetics and Sufis in a unified way, and it is also among the first ... Read More

The significance of the mega-metaphors' metamorphosis in the History of Concepts (with a focus on the conceptual transformation of the word "homeland")

ُShayesteh Sadat Mousavi; Pariya shateriyan

Volume 14, Issue 1 , June 2024, , Pages 19-41

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2023.354011.1179

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Metamorphism of mega-metaphors signifies the historical ruptures. The political and social concepts expose themselves in new configuration and evolve in companion with the historical ... Read More

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