Daniel Blow. Shah Abbas. The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend

Investigating the Role of Correspondences in Iranian Political Relations with Neighboring Governments in the First Shah Abbas Era (with an Emphasis on the Manuscripts of the Correspondences)

The kingship of Shah Abbas was contemporary with one of the most critical period in the Safavid era. One of the main challenges of the Safavid government at this time was how to deal with the neighboring states. One of Shah Abbas's first steps to address the challenges was to enable diplomacy and to send numerous communications to the neighboring states. In addition to introducing the correspon...

Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus: An ancient Iranian Immunologist King

haly ‘abbas, iranian celebrated physician who wrote an excellently organized medical compendium

one of the greatest physicians and encyclopedists in middle ages in europe was born in al-ahwaz (c.930) from old persian stock. ‘alī was moved to shīrāz at an early age and made his medical studies under a physician of this city, abū mahir mūsā ibn sayyar. he practised medicine in baghdad in mid – tenth century and served as physician to ‘adud al-dawla, to whom he dedicated his only composition...

The doctor who would be king.

Ruthless play

This Doctoral Consortium paper overviews the author’s PhD thesis which aims to explore the phenomenon, affect and appeal of ruthless play through examining three ruthless games; EVE Online (2003), DayZ (2012) and Warhammer 40,000 (1989).