IranPub Date : 2024-07-30DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2023.2210113
Fatemeh Karimi, Abed Taghavi
{"title":"Zoroastrians in the Economy of Yazd During the Qajar and Pahlavi I Dynasties","authors":"Fatemeh Karimi, Abed Taghavi","doi":"10.1080/05786967.2023.2210113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2023.2210113","url":null,"abstract":"In the Qajar period, Zoroastrian merchants of Iran were able to engage in commercial activities with fewer restrictions than in the past. In this article, the economic performance of the Zoroastria...","PeriodicalId":501360,"journal":{"name":"Iran","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141883523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IranPub Date : 2022-04-25DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2022.2058409
Mostafa Dehpahlavan, Zahra Alinezhad
{"title":"The Cylinder Seals of Qareh Tepe in Sagzabad, Iron Age II and III","authors":"Mostafa Dehpahlavan, Zahra Alinezhad","doi":"10.1080/05786967.2022.2058409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2022.2058409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>During the four seasons of excavation (2015–2019) in the newly-discovered Iron Age II and III eastern cemetery of Qareh Tepe in Sagzabad, 40 cylinder seals were found in the trench 12 in 10 graves. All of these seals have been made from faience. According to the style and composition, they are divided into two distinct types; Local and Neo-Assyrian style. Local style includes abstract animals with long horns, human and animal, undulating ladder-patterned lines, and the oblique square with a diagonal line of the crosshatching. The procession of great bird seals that they have clearly been inspired by the Assyrian type, it can be said that they are probably a local version of an Assyrian type that were made in Iran. Presenting scenes of hunting, Neo-Assyrian style seals also show the expansion of the Assyrian cultural sphere to this region of Iran. Since all of these seals have been found from Qareh Tepe, and many of them have been discovered in women’s graves and some even in the graves of infants, they can be strong evidence of punctuation to administrative use, these seals were used in personal ornament necklaces and had possibly a religious function at the beginning of the Iron Age III.</p>","PeriodicalId":501360,"journal":{"name":"Iran","volume":"195 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138521894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IranPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2020.1744469
Atri Hatef Naiemi
{"title":"The Ilkhanid City of Sultaniyya: Some Remarks on the Citadel and the Outer City","authors":"Atri Hatef Naiemi","doi":"10.1080/05786967.2020.1744469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2020.1744469","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mongol campaigns in Iran in the thirteenth century caused extensive destruction in different aspects of the social life and built environment of Iran. Following the foundation of the Ilkhanid dynasty in 1256, along with the reconstruction of the cities that had been extensively destroyed during the Mongol attack on Iran, the Ilkhans (Mongol rulers) founded a number of new settlements. Sultaniyya in one of the major urban centres that was planned and constructed from the outset by the Ilkhans. In view of the available architectural remains, archaeological findings, and written records, this article seeks to describe the spatial structure of the citadel and the outer city of Ilkhanid Sultaniyya.","PeriodicalId":501360,"journal":{"name":"Iran","volume":" 6","pages":"91 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141221056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IranPub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2020.1792798
Masssoumeh (Nahid) Assemi
{"title":"Shahnameh-ye Davari; An Ode to a Dying Art?","authors":"Masssoumeh (Nahid) Assemi","doi":"10.1080/05786967.2020.1792798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2020.1792798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>ABSTRACT</b></p><p>Shahnameh-ye Davari, dating to 1272 (1856) is one of the last <i>Shahnamehs</i>, copied and illustrated in the traditional style. It is kept at the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran under accession number 599. It is a sumptuously decorated manuscript on a par with courtly productions and has sixty-eight illustrations, yet it is not a commissioned work. It was created by Mohammad ibn Vesal (1822–1865), with the pen name Davari, a poet/calligrapher/illustrator/illuminator of little or no means and perhaps as an ode to a dying art. This article attempts to introduce the manuscript, placing it within the context of the artistic history of Qajar Iran (1789–1925).</p>","PeriodicalId":501360,"journal":{"name":"Iran","volume":"3 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}