short introduce Mîrzâ Muhammad Nâsir al-Hussaynî – better known as Fursat Shirazi (1854–1920) – was an explorer of different forms of knowledge more than a specialist in any of them. Fursat Shirazi was a self-taught painter who made aliving by painting portraits of the local and national aristocracy, to whom he was linked by relations […]
Historians consider the second half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century formative of what is often termed “Iranian modernity” (Cole 1998a; Najmabadi 2005; Tavakoli-Targhi 2001). It was a period of conceptual and material retooling. Therelation with the West, with its colonial and orientalist entailments, was an integral part
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In Iran there is a centuries-old tradition of local history or geography.
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The term dâr al-‘ilm, Abode of Knowledge, was used in the early centuries after the hijra to describe a library and a place of learning. The epithet was also used to refer to cities renowned as centers of learning, Shiraz among them. According to the Shirazi scholar Sadr al-dîn Mahallâtî (Kânûn-i Dânish 1954), the city
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Shiraz is located in the south of Iran and counts today a population of about a million and a half. The lands surrounding the plain of Shiraz were foundational for the two major dynasties of pre-Islamic Iran, the Achaemenids (550–330BCE) and the Sassanids (206–651CE). Ever since, Shiraz and its region, known as Fars, have been
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The Basseri count their numbers and describe their camp groups and sections in terms of tents (sing.: khune = house). Each such tent is occupied by an independent household, typically consisting of an elementary family; and these households are the basic units of Basseri society. They are units of production and consumption; represented by their
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The Basseri are a tribe of tent-dwelling pastoral nomads who migrate in the arid steppes and mountains south, east and north of Shiraz in Fars province, South Persia. The area which they customarily inhabit is a strip of land, approximately 300 miles long and 20-50 miles wide, running in a fairly straight north-south line from
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At the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century most of the Bakhtiyari was under the governorship of the Georgian enunch, Manuchehr Khan Mo’atemed od Dauleh, and the provinces under his authority included Isfahan, Khuzistan, and most of Luristan. A northern corner of the Haft Leng territory was under the governor of Burujerd,
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In practice the Bakhtiyari territory would appear to be considered the property of the khans of each tayefeh; they determined its use. The ilkhan and ilbeg were assigned by the Central Government to collect the annual tax or maliyat, and within the confederation itself they had the final decision in cases involving disputes over the land. Traditionally the tayefeh had rights
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Mention has been made of the intermediary role of the khans in collecting taxes and conscripting recruits for the government. It will be seen that a khan requires support from within the tribe in order to fulfill these functions. There are-frequent references in the sources to a change of allegiance within a tribe and/or a part of
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