Short introduction by Fursat Fursat traces the territory of Âsâr-i ‘Ajam through a series of conceptual and geographical delimitations that identify the object of the book, extracting it from larger regions and topics. The book opens describing Iran as “a vast country whose places had many names that changed over time and comprised Irâq, Khurn, […]
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interest in the ancient In Iran, interest in the ancient past of the country grew during the nineteenth century. The Qajar monarchs appropriated Achaemenid or Sassanian elements into their visual culture, commissioning or carrying out excavations (Abdi 2001; Baygdilû 2001; Grigor 2007; Scarce 2006). In the same period, European philologists put Iran at the
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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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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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