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Staging Power: Visual Strategies of Kingship in the Windsor Castle ‘Ishqnama Illustrated Manuscript 舞台力量：温莎城堡国王地位的视觉策略

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911761

Parul Singh

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‘Iyani, A Shirazi Poet and Historian in the Bahmani Deccan 伊亚尼，巴赫马尼德干的西拉兹诗人和历史学家

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911758

A. Peacock

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Revisiting a Royal Sultanate Manuscript from Bengal: The Sharafnama of Nasir al-Din Nusrat Shah of 938/1531–2 重新审视来自孟加拉的皇家苏丹国手稿:938/1531-2年Nasir al-Din Nusrat Shah的Sharafnama

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911759

Emily Shovelton

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Persian Manuscripts in Victoria Memorial, Kolkata 加尔各答维多利亚纪念堂的波斯手稿

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911731

Mahmood Alam

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Collections Within Collections: An Analysis of Tipu Sultan’s Library 收藏中的收藏——提普苏丹图书馆分析

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911760

Ursula Sims-Williams

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Textual Culture Between India and Iran: The Reproduction of Verse in Nasrabadi’s Biographical Anthology 印度与伊朗的文本文化:纳斯拉巴迪传记选集中诗歌的再现

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911762

James White

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So Close and Yet Often so Far Away: The History of India as Told by Historians in Iran Around 1500 如此近却往往如此遥远：1500年前后伊朗历史学家讲述的印度历史

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911733

Philip Bockholt

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Purity and Polemics: Zoroastrian Women’s Bodies as Sites of Difference and Contestation in Early Islamic Iran 纯洁与论战:早期伊斯兰伊朗的琐罗亚斯德教女性身体作为差异和争论的场所

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1945421

Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina

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Akbar's History of the Timurids 阿克巴的帖木儿王朝史

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911735

Charles Melville

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Remapping the World in a Fifteenth-Century Cosmography: Genres and Networks Between Deccan India and Iran 在15世纪的宇宙学中重新绘制世界:德干印度和伊朗之间的类型和网络

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Iran-Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911755

Vivek Gupta

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