Fursat Shirazi
short introduce Mîrzâ Muhammad Nâsir al-Hussaynî – better known as Fursat Shirazi (1854–1920) – was an explorer of different forms of knowledge more than […]
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The territory of Shiraz
Historians consider the second half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century formative of what is often termed […]
Shiraz :The territory of knowledge
In Iran there is a centuries-old tradition of local history or geography.
Shiraz, City of knowledge
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 […]
Shiraz : short introduction
Shiraz is located in the south of Iran and counts today a population of about a million and a half. The lands surrounding the […]
BASSERI TRIBE : DOMESTIC UNITS
The Basseri count their numbers and describe their camp groups and sections in terms of tents (sing.: khune = house). Each such tent is […]
Basseri Tribe : History, Ecology and Economy
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 […]
Mohammad Taqi Khan Chahar Leng in Bakhtiyari Tribe
At the beginning of the second quarter of the nineteenth century most of the Bakhtiyari was under the governorship of the Georgian enunch, Manuchehr […]
Economic Resources of the Khans
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 […]
Tribal Role of the Khans
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 […]