Entrance to sacred places where pilgrims enter enthusiastically for pilgrimage and request for divine bestowal expose one of the characteristics of pilgrimage called the hierarchy of entry. There have been numerous studies on the necessity and quality of sequential spaces for entry to sacred sites in Iran, but little research has been done on the cognitive impact of this hierarchy on the visito...

Carpet weaving constituted the most important industry of Kerman province in the end of Qajars period. This industry attracted a large number of manpower and allotted itself the highest digit of export. There were many factories in flourishing carpet weaving of Kerman. The most effective factor in the prosperous of the industry was outer investing and foreign demand. In this investigation, the ...

Ta’zieh is one of the religious forms of the Iranian drama which has been flourished in Qajar dynasty and more specifically in Nassery era according to the researchers of the Iranian drama field. They believe that the main reasons for this development in Qajar dynasty are sustainment of the Shi’ite religious authority from Safavid dynasty on and establishment of temporary as well as...

In the late of the Qajar era, a Persianized Iranian royal family of Azerbaijani Turkic origin which ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925, the Isfahan carpet design was revived by some of the artists such as Mirza Aqa Emami and Mohammad Hossein Mosavver Al-Molki. One of the leading artists in the late of the Qajar period and the early of the next period, Mohammad Hossein Mosavver Al-Molki, known as Ha...

This article intends to research the categorization and separation of “handicraft of Iran” in relation to the “Westernism” and “Orientalism” discourses in the Qajar discursive atmosphere by discourse analysis method and answers the questions of how “Handicrafts” is categorized at this intersection in the Qajar period, and how did these applied works changed into functional objects in the servic...