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Sorena Firouzi; Zohre Jozi
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The study of Mesopotamian inscriptions, especially from the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods, has provided researchers with much geographical data. Based on the topographical coordinates provided by this information, the cultural and historical background of the western and central regions of the Iranian ...
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The study of Mesopotamian inscriptions, especially from the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods, has provided researchers with much geographical data. Based on the topographical coordinates provided by this information, the cultural and historical background of the western and central regions of the Iranian plateau has been better investigated. This process has formed the basis for many historical, cultural, and archaeological studies. Assyrians gradually began to pay attention to the east of their land from the era of Tiglath-Pileser I, and this view gained strength during the Neo-Assyrian periods. Therefore, in this upcoming research, we will use the geographical basis of the royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian kings to investigate which territories described in those written documents corresponded to the boundaries of the current Ilam province or at least its northern part. This article demonstrates that contrary to opinions raised about the land of Namri, an important part of the coordinates of this ancient area coincided with the boundaries of Ilam province. Furthermore, this research argues that based on this conclusion and a study of the cultural components of Namri, we can gain a better understanding of the cultural state of the coordinates of Ilam province in the first millennium BCE .The study of Mesopotamian inscriptions, especially from the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods, has provided researchers with much geographical data. Based on the topographical coordinates provided by this information, the cultural and historical background of the western and central regions of the Iranian plateau has been better investigated. This process has formed the basis for many historical, cultural, and archaeological studies. Assyrians gradually began to pay attention to the east of their land from the era of Tiglath-Pileser I, and this view gained strength during the Neo-Assyrian periods. Therefore, in this upcoming research, we will use the geographical basis of the royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian kings to investigate which territories described in those written documents corresponded to the boundaries of the current Ilam province or at least its northern part.
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mina Rastgar fard; Yaghoub Mohammadifar; Esmail Hemati Azandaryani
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Pearl is one of the most frequently used ornaments in Sassanid decoration arts which, as a valuable element and the symbol of divine glory in religious and nonreligious figures. In the Sassanid era comprehensive and vast connections with the east was formed which led to exchange of cultural concepts ...
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Pearl is one of the most frequently used ornaments in Sassanid decoration arts which, as a valuable element and the symbol of divine glory in religious and nonreligious figures. In the Sassanid era comprehensive and vast connections with the east was formed which led to exchange of cultural concepts and content of Sassanid art with those countries. The wide-range reach of Persian culture and its expanse and popularity in China on the Silk Road is one of the main focuses of this research; and thus, the study of pearl decorations as an index of most repeated common decorations in Sassanid era, especially particular art of the courtiers and nobles, has been considered. This study aims to answer two important questions: By studying the pearl motifs, the influence of the artistic and religious thinking of the Sassanid court on Chinese civilization can be examined from what aspects? Was the usage of pearl depictions in Chinese arts consciously or was it a mere imitation of Sassanid royal arts as a new and luxurious commodity or tradition? The nature of current study is fundamental and its approach is descriptive, analytical-comparative and the data gathering method is of library type. In this study culture refers to distinct and unique parts of artistic tastes and thoughts, architectural decorations, textiles and other artworks that had an impact on Chinese culture. The considered geographical expanse includes documents achieved in the eastern Sassanid provinces and further the study of its impact along the Silk Road through China. The pearl decorative elements used in Buddhist temples, Sogdian tombs or Manichaean sources are not merely imitations derived from the Sassanid aesthetic concept; Rather, it is a conscious choice of its original concept and then the application of this art in a new religious and cultural context. It seems that the main factor in introducing the Sassanid culture to the neighboring nations is trade along the Silk Road, in front of the presence of numerous ambassadors and the sending of various gifts from the Sassanids to the Chinese court.
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Ismail Sharahi
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The building of Qale Dokhtar (Qiz Qala, Qazqaleh) is a mountain fortress located 25 kilometers southwest of Saveh on top of a single mountain in the Hendes mountain range. Different opinions have been presented in the researches about the formation of this building and its function. Some researchers ...
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The building of Qale Dokhtar (Qiz Qala, Qazqaleh) is a mountain fortress located 25 kilometers southwest of Saveh on top of a single mountain in the Hendes mountain range. Different opinions have been presented in the researches about the formation of this building and its function. Some researchers have considered the construction of Qale Dokhtar to be related to the Sassanid period and its function as Anahita Temple, and others have identified it as a fortress related to the middle centuries of the Islamic period and related to the Ismailid sect. The lack of reliable documents and evidence from the researchers in presenting the two mentioned functions has raised the question of what was the function of Qale Dokhtar as a huge and magnificent building that was formed in the geographical and historical background of Saveh and when was it formed? Certainly, addressing this issue apart from providing suggestions for the dating and function of Qala Dokhtar in particular, in the field of architectural or archeological researches of the Islamic period, especially castles, raises challenges that will be necessary to be comprehensively addressed by researchers in the future. In this article, it is assumed that QaLE Dokhtar is an Ismailid castle and its function was based on the use of the followers of that sect. The method of conducting this research is historical-analytical which is based on field investigations and architectural evidence, archeological field excavations and the use of library resources. The conducted studies and researches have considered the Qale Dokhtar in connection with other Ismailid castles in Iran and suggested the 5th to 7th centuries AH as the period of formation and use of that castle in the service of the Ismailid sect.Qale Dokhtar, as one of the important castles, played a role in the creation of the network of castles and fortifications of the Ismailid sect in Central Iran and is considered one of the main castles.
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Ismail Sharahi; Mohammad Ebrahim zarei; Hamide Choubak
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The building of Qale Dokhtar (Qiz Qala, Qazqaleh) is a mountain fortress located 25 kilometers southwest of Saveh on top of a single mountain in the Hendes mountain range. Different opinions have been presented in the researches about the formation of this building and its function. Some researchers ...
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The building of Qale Dokhtar (Qiz Qala, Qazqaleh) is a mountain fortress located 25 kilometers southwest of Saveh on top of a single mountain in the Hendes mountain range. Different opinions have been presented in the researches about the formation of this building and its function. Some researchers have considered the construction of Qale Dokhtar to be related to the Sassanid period and its function as Anahita Temple, and others have identified it as a fortress related to the middle centuries of the Islamic period and related to the Ismailid sect. The lack of reliable documents and evidence from the researchers in presenting the two mentioned functions has raised the question of what was the function of Qale Dokhtar as a huge and magnificent building that was formed in the geographical and historical background of Saveh and when was it formed? Certainly, addressing this issue apart from providing suggestions for the dating and function of Qala Dokhtar in particular, in the field of architectural or archeological researches of the Islamic period, especially castles, raises challenges that will be necessary to be comprehensively addressed by researchers in the future. In this article, it is assumed that QaLE Dokhtar is an Ismailid castle and its function was based on the use of the followers of that sect. The method of conducting this research is historical-analytical which is based on field investigations and architectural evidence, archeological field excavations and the use of library resources. The conducted studies and researches have considered the Qale Dokhtar in connection with other Ismailid castles in Iran and suggested the 5th to 7th centuries AH as the period of formation and use of that castle in the service of the Ismailid sect.Qale Dokhtar, as one of the important castles, played a role in the creation of the network of castles and fortifications of the Ismailid sect in Central Iran and is considered one of the main castles.
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Mina Safa
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The study of Khusrawani wisdom, also known as the wisdom of ancient Iran, encompasses all cultural conceptions. It serves as a means to gain a more accurate understanding of Islamic-Iranian culture, tracing back to the second century of the Hijra. This culture predominantly consists of mystical mythology ...
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The study of Khusrawani wisdom, also known as the wisdom of ancient Iran, encompasses all cultural conceptions. It serves as a means to gain a more accurate understanding of Islamic-Iranian culture, tracing back to the second century of the Hijra. This culture predominantly consists of mystical mythology and philosophy. Iranian wisdom summarizes the various schools of thought, religions, and worldviews of the Iranian peoples. These traditions evolved in Iran for centuries both before and after the advent of Islam. Sheikh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi referred to this wisdom as "Eshraq/Khusrawani wisdom." Iranian philosophers and sages emerged within Iran's rich intellectual and cultural milieu, drawing from the vast seas of wisdom and philosophy from both the East and the West. Among these sages was Nasser Khosrow Qubadiani, an Ismaili Da'i and Hujjat in the 5th century AH. While previous analyses of his works have been approached from a Western perspective, focusing on the influence of Greek philosophy, this research delves into fundamental questions. It explores Nasser Khosrow's relationship with the ancient world of Iran and whether he drew from the legacy of Iranian philosophy/Khusrawani wisdom, and to what extent. Nasser Khosrow's impact on Iranian culture and literature, spanning both ancient and Islamic eras, can be divided into two main aspects. In the first part, Nasser Khosrow was influenced by the heritage of ancient Iranian culture. This influence is evident in his references to figures like Zoroaster, Avesta, Zand, and Pazand, as well as mentioning great kings such as Anusharvan and Sam in his Diwan. The second part reveals Nasser Khosrow's assimilation of the culture of the Abbasid era, including its writers and poets. This article investigates the role and significance of Iranian/Khusrawani wisdom in Nasser Khosrow's intellectual framework. By highlighting the importance of reason and authority in his intellectual structure, it compares, interprets, and analyzes the key aspects of Khusrawani wisdom and Nasser Khosrow's wisdom concerning reason and authority.
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Fatemeh Taherkhani; heydar valizadeh
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The purpose of writing this article is to investigate the language mechanisms in the Shiite discourse that led to the recovery and revival of the concept of "Iran" in the Safavid era.The importance of dealing with this concept is because many social-political relations and relationships, ways ...
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The purpose of writing this article is to investigate the language mechanisms in the Shiite discourse that led to the recovery and revival of the concept of "Iran" in the Safavid era.The importance of dealing with this concept is because many social-political relations and relationships, ways of power generation, how to form the Iranian-Islamic identity, and how to build a centralized Shiite government are hidden in its underlying layers of meaning. One of the important texts of this period, which was written in the style of a political book in the year 1402 AH and was dedicated to Shah Abbas II, is the book Roza Al-Anwar by Mullah Mohammad Baqer Sabzevari.This book, with its frequent use of the word Iran, is a good example for examining the way Iran and Shiism are discursively blended as two pillars of identity in contemporary Iran. By reading this text in accordance with Ryan Kozlak's conceptual history approach and Ruth Wodak's historical-discursive method, the following results were obtained:The concept of Iran has been mentioned and used in the widest semantic and historical form in this text, and all the discursive and semantic capacities available in it, including mythological, geographical, religious and cultural forms, have been used to produce the political power of the all-embracing and emerging Safavid state. and all levels and layers of historical meaning of this concept have been summoned in this text.
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Farahnaz Shams; Kolsoum Ghazanfari
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Among the important concepts in Zoroastrianism, philanthropy is highly recommended and has received special attention. Philanthropy has a wide scope and dimensions, and knowing its examples, scope and mechanisms can clarify its individual, social, spiritual and cultural functions. Considering the impact ...
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Among the important concepts in Zoroastrianism, philanthropy is highly recommended and has received special attention. Philanthropy has a wide scope and dimensions, and knowing its examples, scope and mechanisms can clarify its individual, social, spiritual and cultural functions. Considering the impact of philanthropy on the morality and life of individuals and society, the explanation of this concept can clarify the perception and view of society and individuals towards it. The purpose of this article is to examine philanthropy and its dimensions in Pahlavi texts that were formalized in the Sasanian period or the first Islamic centuries. Depending on the period in which these texts were written, it is possible to learn about the definitions and activities of individuals, religious institutions and the state apparatus in this field, which required interaction between them. Studies show that the interests of the individual and the family, the community and the religious community were taken into account in the discussion of philanthropy.Among the important concepts in Zoroastrianism, philanthropy is highly recommended and has received special attention. Philanthropy has a wide scope and dimensions, and knowing its examples, scope and mechanisms can clarify its individual, social, spiritual and cultural functions. Considering the impact of philanthropy on the morality and life of individuals and society, the explanation of this concept can clarify the perception and view of society and individuals towards it. The purpose of this article is to examine philanthropy and its dimensions in Pahlavi texts that were formalized in the Sasanian period or the first Islamic centuries. Depending on the period in which these texts were written, it is possible to learn about the definitions and activities of individuals, religious institutions and the state apparatus in this field, which required interaction between them. Studies show that the interests of the individual and the family, the community and the religious community were taken into account in the discussion of philanthropy.
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zahra sadat keshavarz
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In this connection, Max Weber's theory and comparative strategy have been put as a basis so that an ideal type of family change in the demography of the history of most societies becomes a mechanism for speculating about the sociological causality of the change in family dimensions in the Safavid ...
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In this connection, Max Weber's theory and comparative strategy have been put as a basis so that an ideal type of family change in the demography of the history of most societies becomes a mechanism for speculating about the sociological causality of the change in family dimensions in the Safavid era, and because The influence of the family on the propulsion of governance, as mediating variables, the method of path analysis is adapted. The relevant hypothesis is that; the governors of Safavid rule have created the initial and possible grounds for changing the dimensions of the family. The question corresponding to the hypothesis is that; is it possible to consider the change of the dimensions of the family based on the governors of Safavid rule? Therefore, the analytical viewpoint of the research has voted for the threshold situation of changing the dimensions of the family, from broad to broad dimensions, in the Safavid era; because it is possible that the propulsion of power relations diplomacy have affected the development of the profession, and further, the development of the profession has influenced the possible passage of the extended family and indicates the possibility of the correctness of such an assumption. Of course, the aforementioned change was only a preface to the extensive text of the family change and had a completely preliminary status in the Safavid era, and it can only be proposed as a hypothesis-generating research in the realm of historical analysis.
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Esmaeil Sangari; Shaghayegh Taheri Bakhtiarvand
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In January 2001, a common surge within the southeastern area of Kerman, Iran, uncovered an obscure culture in Jiroft. The surge revealed artifacts that each uncover a covered up corner of the obscure culture of the people of Jiroft within the third thousand years BC. In spite of the disclosure of an ...
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In January 2001, a common surge within the southeastern area of Kerman, Iran, uncovered an obscure culture in Jiroft. The surge revealed artifacts that each uncover a covered up corner of the obscure culture of the people of Jiroft within the third thousand years BC. In spite of the disclosure of an obscure composing framework in Jiroft culture, the pictures utilized on the artifacts of this culture are of evident significance. Distinctive human, plant, creature, structural, and human-animal images are apparent on these artifacts. To get it and studied the existing images, the as it were way out is to examined the iconographic and iconological themes of the themes and compare these themes with the neighboring civilizations of the culture. Iconographic consider makes it conceivable to get to the scholarly substance, myths, and stories related to the themes. In differentiate, iconological consider will lead to an understanding of the genuine foundation of the discovered motifs in terms of time and put within the center of the society in address. One of the foremost common images utilized in Jiroft vessels is the motif of the fight of the hawk and the wind. The predominance of this picture within the craftsmanship of the obscure culture of Jiroft certainly contains covered up concepts that the Jiroft craftsman tries. The show inquire about, based on library assets and descriptive-analytical strategies, serious to look at this not-so-well-known culture through the investigation and translation of the theme in address.
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Poorchista Goshtasbi Ardakany; Zohreh Zarshenas; Farzaneh Goshtasb
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Frēdōn is one of the most famous mythical heroes of Iran who defeated Zahhak and imprisoned him on Mount Damavand. In this study, the myths about Frēdōn that appear in the Sūdgar Nask and Waršt-Mānsar Nask, along with the Manichaean text “dr”, in which Frēdōn’s name is mentioned as the ...
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Frēdōn is one of the most famous mythical heroes of Iran who defeated Zahhak and imprisoned him on Mount Damavand. In this study, the myths about Frēdōn that appear in the Sūdgar Nask and Waršt-Mānsar Nask, along with the Manichaean text “dr”, in which Frēdōn’s name is mentioned as the destroyer of fever and disease, are compared with the Avesta and Zand to determine whether the myth of Frēdōn in these texts is authentic or not. According to the investigations, it was found that the myth of “beating and imprisoning Zahhak by Frēdōn” is an original myth that is also found in Avesta and is also mentioned in the Shahnameh, Garshaspnameh, and Kushnameh with similarities to the Sūdgar Nask. The myth of “Frēdōn’s use of enchantment and magic to overcome the Māzandar Daēvas” is not original and was created by the guest verses in this chapter, and it has not been mentioned in the Shahnameh and Kushnameh.The myth of “Frēdōn’s healing and his struggle with fever and illness” that appears in the Manichaean text “dr” is an original myth and appears in the Avesta. The myth of “Ohrmazd’s offering the mission of religion to Frēdōn and Frēdōn’s disobedience to Ohrmazd” that is mentioned in the Waršt-Mānsar Nask is a created myth and is made by the guest verses mentioned in this chapter.
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abdolreza seif; Behzad Geranmaye
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This study undertakes a comparative examination of the concept and quality of love in two prominent works of Persian mystical literature: Tamhīdāt by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī and the Ghazals of Ḥāfeẓ of Shiraz. The primary objective of this research is to analyze and compare the perspectives ...
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This study undertakes a comparative examination of the concept and quality of love in two prominent works of Persian mystical literature: Tamhīdāt by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī and the Ghazals of Ḥāfeẓ of Shiraz. The primary objective of this research is to analyze and compare the perspectives of these two eminent mystical thinkers on the notion of love, with particular emphasis on its ontological, epistemological, and spiritual dimensions. Love, as one of the most fundamental concepts in Islamic mysticism, is a multifaceted, complex, and dynamic phenomenon that, when confronted with notions such as reason, religious law, mystical experience, and intuitive knowledge, reveals diverse interpretations and expressions. While certain key themes—such as the dominance of love, the conflict between love and intellect, heedlessness, and the origin of love—are commonly found across various mystical texts, a close comparative analysis reveals significant parallels between ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s views on love and the themes presented in Ḥāfeẓ’s poetry. Utilizing qualitative content analysis as its methodological framework, this study identifies and examines the key symbols, metaphors, and motifs related to love in both works, mapping the similarities and differences in their conceptualizations. Ultimately, while it is not possible to definitively assert a direct influence of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt on Ḥāfeẓ, the textual evidence indicates a profound, meaningful, and undeniable intellectual connection between the mystical thought of these two influential figures in the history of Persian Sufism.
