In this work, Pedram Khosronejad has paid special attention to the role of Naser al-Din Shah's popular Shiite values in shaping attitudes toward the depiction in portraiture of the Prophet Mohammad and Imam Ali.
Author: Pedram Khosronejad
Publisher:
ISBN: 0999480111
Category: Arts, Iranian
Page: 180
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The pictorial representation of Shiite themes in lithographed books of the Qajar
period, in P. Khosronejad (ed.), The art and material culture of Iranian Shiʿism:
Iconography and religious devotion in Shiʿi Islam, London 2012, 74–103.
Author: Sebastian Günther
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004333154
Category: History
Page: 1550
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These paintings reflect the characteristic Qajar color palette and attention to
modeling and light and shade. They are charming but naïve in their execution. ...
Shiʿite Art and Material Culture (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009). 26 See: Serpil Bagçi
and ...
Author: Christiane J. Gruber
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783110312546
Category: Art
Page: 400
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In recent years there has been increasing interest in the study of Qajar Iran,
particularly with respect to religion during ... With contributions from leading
researchers in the field of religion in nineteenth-century Iran, this book presents
new insights into Qajar religious, political and cultural history. ... the importance of
archival materials for the study of religion ... the centrality of Shiite hierarchy and
the state.
Author: Professor of Arabic Studies Robert Gleave
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134304196
Category: History
Page: 496
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36 On the Najaf circle of painters, see Willem Floor, “Art (Naqqashi) and Artists (
Naqqashan) in Qajar Persia,” Muqarnas 16 ... Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism:
Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam, ed. ... Peter J. Chelkowski, ed.
, Eternal Performance: Ta'ziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals (London: Seagull, 2010).
Author: David J. Roxburgh
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300229196
Category: Art
Page: 173
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Aspects of History, Community, and Culture David Yeroushalmi. state.87
Although some members of the Shiite clerical establishment, particularly the state
-paid religious officials and functionaries, were willing to identify with royal
authority, most prominent Shiite clergymen (mujtahids) distanced themselves
from the Qajar court. ... prevent social anarchy.88 Given the growing material,
social and psychological distresses and dislocations of the general population (
particularly during the ...
Author: David Yeroushalmi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004152885
Category: Religion
Page: 437
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They are among the first to rely on Persian archival and manuscript material to
produce a detailed and balanced historical ... the first reconstruction of Qajar
history up to the end of the Fath - ' Ali Shah era ( 1250 / 1834 ) that draws on
Persian and ... In contrast his hostile portrayal of the Bab and the Babi movement
is in congruence with the deep - seated Perso - Shiʻite cultural biases against
minorities .
Author: Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015060377564
Category: Iran
Page:
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In the context of Qajar lithographed books, literature implies the three categories
of classical literature, particularly mystical, ... 'Ali at Karbala that is of pivotal
importance for the definition of the Shiite creed; and works of a narrative, fictional,
or otherwise primarily entertaining character. ... 4th edn (Marburg 2000). material
culture will enable a multi-dimensional comparison of these aspects 32 Printing
and ...
Author: Philip Sadgrove
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: UOM:39015080729380
Category: Printing
Page: 209
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R. H. Crawford , “ Geoy Tepe 1903 : Material in the Collection of the Fitswilliam
Museum , Cambridge , ” Iranica Antiqua 11 , 1975 , pp . 1-28 . ... Idem , “ The
Material Culture of Early Iran , ” INES 1/4 , 1942 , pp . ... Aqā Mohammad Khan
Qājār ( r . ... According to Afšār Sistānī , the Gerāyli speak Turki and are Shiʻite (
p .
Author: Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher:
ISBN: 0933273568
Category: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Page: 672
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The city was taken by the Romans classical columns and capitals as material for
in 146 B.C. , and was destroyed . ... The sister of the 8th Shiite imam , Fatima al -
Masuma ( " the sinless one " ) , died here in 817 on her way to meet her brother .
... The Persian Safavid and Qajar shahs , who chose Qum as their own burial
place , favored the city , and since the 19th century it has again become a center
of Shiite intellectual life . ... 32 ISLAM - WORLD RELIGION AND CULTURAL
POWER.
Author: Markus Hattstein
Publisher:
ISBN: UCBK:C068786751
Category: Architecture, Islamic
Page: 639
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No doubt the inherent weaknesses of the Qajar government hindered the
process of centralization and state building ; regional ... To the extent that the
Qajars were able to transform the Persian cultural heritage , the Shiʻite religion ,
and the old monarchical legacy ... It was the material advantages of the people of
Europe ...
Author: Abbas Amanat
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015046826726
Category: History
Page: 461
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See Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States KANELLOS , NICOLÁS ,
ed . ... covering the period from the founding of the Qajar dynasty in 1785 through
the Pahlavi dynasty ( 192579 ) and the first decade of the Islamic ... location ,
Shiite Islamic culture , and the predilection for personalistic rule , rather than
transitory factors such as socioeconomic change ... Kanfer appears to have been
as diligent in searching through all the raw material as any prospector ,
producing worthy ...
Author:
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ISBN: UOM:39015078261867
Category: Bibliography
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approaches , especially for a hierarchical system rooted in a patriarchal culture ,
to the question of the role of women , both ... the range of writings is little short of
amazing The material is arranged in three parts , with Part I treating the historical
... and the openness of a relatively malleable Shiʻite community to new thinking
generally , up to the last hundred years ... Ulama in Qajar Persia " by Willem Floor
.
Author:
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ISBN: UCAL:B3837563
Category:
Page:
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East of the crumbling Ottoman Empire was the shrinking domain of Shiite Persia
under the weak Qajar dynasty ; it had been reduced to ... had already begun to
think in terms of selectively borrowing the military and material apparatus of
Western technology and therefore ... ranks of those informed not only about
Western technological achievements but also about Western political and cultural
institutions .
Author: Guilford A. Dudley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: UOM:39015006562253
Category: Asia
Page: 733
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In Morier ' s two travel accounts , written over the space of five years , the evolving
image of the shah and his court provided the raw material for his later farcical
portrayal of the shah in his ... Some distinct features of his early Qajar tribal life
remarkably survived in him side by side with the wit and refinement of the high
culture . ... It is also possible to infer from the term Dār - alKelāfa a claim to
Shiʻite royal authority perhaps in competition with the Ottoman claim to the
Sunni caliphate ...
Author: Ehsan Yar-Shater
Publisher:
ISBN: 0933273355
Category: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Page:
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Is freesand and dirt for materials . ... At the center of Iranian Visual Culture " at
New York Unithe work is the silhouette of a silver hand risversity's Grey Art
Gallery . ... The hand , a recurring motif director Lynn Gumpert and Fereshteh
throughout the show , is an important Shiite Daftari ... the Qajar dynasty , which
had ruled Iran since popular , religion - based coffeehouse paintings , callig a
diagonal grid .
Author: Frank Jewett Mather
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015058293351
Category: Art
Page:
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HIST attsville , Md . The Shiite religious heads became de facto rulers of Iran as
leaders and popular BRENTON , Francis . The Voyage of the spokesmen against
the increasingly hated Sierra Sagrada : Across the Atlantic in a Qajar dynasty ...
but another book on the subject is in order especially since it contains some new
material and is a vivid firsthand account . ... 3060 ) the eighth line should read , “
Ojha ... describes how China's old and cherished culture became irrelevant in the
...
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ISBN: UVA:X000018009
Category: Libraries
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Rather , the intention is to use these biographical materials to try to see how
towards the end of his life Şafi ' s early ... by himself and his commemorators and
how this remembered life fitted into the broader cultural processes of the period .
... beginning in 1280 / 1863 – 64 , during the course of which he also visited
Mecca and the Shiʻite shrine cities of Iraq . ... A khānaqāh was built for Şafi ' Ali
Shāh in Tehran by the Qajar prince Muḥammad Mirzā Sayf al - Dawla ( a
grandson of Fatḥ ...
Author:
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ISBN: UOM:39015062058667
Category: Iran
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Indeed it was the traditional Sufi orders and the ulama who resisted French
cultural domination and established alternative ... and much of the teaching
material was provided by the Alliance Française , and at some schools the
language of instruction was French . The Qajar period was characterized by a
weak administrative infrastructure and lack of centralization . ... The Shiite ulama
was not incorporated into this process of modernization and remained as a social
body apart from the ...
Author: Thomas Benjamin
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN: 0028658442
Category: Colonies
Page: 1315
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Through Their Material and Oral Structures of Death and Dying PEDRAM
KHOSRONEJAD U OXFORD In September 2000 ... England , during a
conference on religion and society during the Qajar dynasty from 1781 to 1925 in
Persia , or what is now Iran . ... With some nine years of field ethnography under
my belt on the rituals , popular culture , folklore and local traditions of ... The
Bakhtiari are Shiite Muslims ; they continue to have close connections with their
local saints and rituals .
Author:
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ISBN: IND:30000115664561
Category: Anthropological linguistics
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