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ISBN: 9783515068963
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Freiburger Islamstudien (FIS)
Volume: 20
Den Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie bildet ein einzelnes, mit nahezu vierhundert Folioseiten recht voluminöses Dokument: die Stiftungsurkunde Rasiduddin Fazlullah-i Hamadanis (ca. 1248-1318) fuer das Rab-i Rasidi, einen Komplex religiöser un... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780974187327
Published by : Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, February 4-September 30, 2005. Far more than merely a catalogue of the exhibition, it offers for a wide readership an introduction to the art of late pr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923363
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 128
The late prehistoric Bakun A culture in Fars is a major source of information on the initial development of the evolutionary path which vertical mobile pastoralists of highland Iran may have taken to develop state organisations. Long before the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900198
Published by : Sidestone Press
In 1979, the world was taken by surprise when the Iranian people revolted against their westernized ruling elite, and traded in the Shah for a radical Islamic republic ruled by the most senior Shiite cleric, ayatollah Khomeini. The Islamic rev... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898592297
Published by : Azimuth Editions
Twelver Shi'ism is the dominant faith in southern Iraq and Iran and it has had a major historical role also in India, in particular in the Deccan and in Lucknow, but its distinctive art and architecture have received little attention and seldom ap... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842175194
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph
Volume: 2
The Gorgan Wall stretches for over 200km through northern Iran. Guarded by over 30 forts, it is longer than Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall put together and is the most monumental ancient border defence system between Central Europe and China.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931707664
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
The Ilkhanid Heartland provides the first source on the fortified medieval (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) settlement of Hasanlu Tepe in the western Azerbaigian province of Iran. Key problems addressed include the nature and dates of the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780873655507
Published by : Harvard University Press
This is the fifth volume of published results from excavations carried out from 1967 to 1975 at the site of Tepe Yahya located in southeastern Iran. In it Peter Magee focuses on the Iron Age period, roughly the first millennium BC, providing detai... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841717463
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Seeks to understand the factors that govern technological change by focusing on a single industry: the production of glazed ceramics in Mesopotamia. .... Learn More