This study investigates the water management structures and social relations that centred around a specific qanāt line in rural setting Iran during Safavid period, specifically mid-17th c. CE. The is northwest of Isfahān, near Varkān, at site called Mobārrak Ābād. method combines analysis documentary evidence remote sensing historical aerial photography. provides administrative details suyūrghā...

An active policy exercised by Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great of Russia) in East coincided with decline and fall Safavid Empire. The goal this article is to show Russian ambitions Caspian region 20–40s 18th century during reign Peter who wanted Russia gain full control over silk trade. This investigates methods used increase Russia’s influence region. historical sources discover reveal ...

Abstract This article undertakes a comparison between Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan with the aim of highlighting similarities differences their respective state projects crafting ‘Islamic’ polities. The proceeds through focus on state-sanctioned practice ritual cursing Sunnis Ahmadis in respectively. In both cases, states made extensive legal efforts to mark out these religious Others by vil...

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 In this study, bowl, plate, bowls, tray, inkwells, medicine containers (albarello), jar and jugs produced with monochromatic glazed, sgraffito underglaze decoration techniques belonging to the Islamic period in Van Museum are discussed. Very few examples among works examined were unearthed during excavations of Castle Old City Van. A large part ceramics was brought museum through...


 The paper aims at providing a comprehensive description of the manuscript Rampur, Rampur Raza Library 3476 (ḥikma 112), which contains three four main parts Avicenna’s philosophical magnum opus, Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (the Book Cure or: Healing). This documents important developments in history Arabic-Islamic philosophy. First, it attests precise intellectual genealogy within influential Daštakī...