Today, religious buildings‌‌, particularly the shrines, have a special place in the category of Architecture. These shrines have been changed during the history and they have found substantial physical differences with each other. It seems that, the difference in the expression of traits and concepts has caused the physical changes between them. Now, the main question is whether these differenc...

The Kurds were originally one of the original Iranian tribesmen who, during the Safavid rule, following the conflict between Shah Isma'il Safavi and Salim I, the king of the Ottoman Empire in the year 1514 on parts of Iran's territory which were Kurdish - called the Chaldoran War- were separated and joined to the Ottoman Empire's territory. These parts today include: today's Turkish Kurdistan, ...

Today we know that the main reason for usage of calligraphy in carpet design was to state and explain the religious content instead of decorative role – such as the other Islamic functional arts. According to that, most of carpets that contain inscriptions are the Mihrabi Carpets that almost use for praying. Along with the Mihrabi Carpets that are often used in religious functions, calligraphy ...

Modified index of orthodontic treatment needs (IOTN) assessment by senior dental students Dr. AR. Akbarzadeh Bagheban*-Dr. SMR. Safavi** -Dr. M. Nouri*** -Dr. L. Eslamian** -Dr. GR. Babaei**** - Dr. A. Kazemnejad**** - Dr. S. Faghihzadeh**** *Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Dept., Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. **Associate Professor of Orthodontics Dept., Faculty of Denti...

  Paying attention to the importance of square can be seen in architecture and organization of physical space of Iranian cities in the past, before Islam and also after that in Islamic urbanization. Saheb-Abad square of Tabriz, Shah square og Qazvin and Naghsh_e_Jahan square of Isfahan are samples of past squares which present power of governments and subtlety of governmental kings that build ...

   In the history of Iran after Islam maybe at the Safavi period, and especially at The Great Shah Abbas era had been the most important and magnificent and Golden Age of developments in all fields, especially at Persian painting art. In this period, by developing of economic and social ties with Europeans which created cultural relations and thus led to a change in the culture and people’s lif...