#Safavid

#manuscripts #ijazat are extremely significant sources for #intellectual_history MS Mar’ashi Qum 6446 1/ This is a license to transmit #hadith of Sayyid Husayn Kashani dated Sha’ban 1288/1871 2/ The test

Christopher Liberatos

CharlestonArchi

A few examples of classical architecture from around the world:Classical Shintō Architecture: Classical Mughal Architecture: Classical Hindu Architecture: Classical Ottoman Architecture: Classical Safavid Architecture:

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Lampas silk, Spain (made) 14th century Silk thread in lampas weave Antique Persian Kerman Carpet, Origin: Persia, Circa: Turn of the Twentieth Century Safavid Kerman ‘vase’ carpet fragment, south east

Just in case anybody would like to do a jigsaw of the Ardabil Carpet: https://jigex.com/yGJQ Now at @V_and_A, its significance lies in the fact that it is the earliest dated

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

Hi there, @fran__olmos one day more talking about Central Asia in Iranian history. Today we will discuss about the rivalry between the Safavids and the Shaybanids from the Khanate of

Devin Fitzgerald

So, lets talk about one of the great world classics, the Panchatantra. Compiled sometime between 30BCE-200CE, the work is likely the most widely circulated text of the pre-global age. By

Mithraism is a religion that spearheads the Mazdaist god Mehr (Mithras in the West) at its helm as a purveyor of light, justice, truth, covenant, and etc. In this thread

In class today, I was teaching the inscription on the Ardabil Carpet - it is this text which makes it the earliest dated carpet to survive. Seeing as there should

Onaiz Qutabzada 🇵🇰

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗜𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹

Finally had the time to make this thread.I'll start w/ a well-known Ottoman Sultan: Suleiman the Magnificent. His relief portrait is in the House Chamber in the U.S. CapitolHis father

The Qur’an was first revealed during the month of Ramadan. This blessed month is also known by Muslims as the month of FastingTo celebrate the arrival of #Ramadan here

The heatwave in the UK this week got me thinking about how people kept cool in 19th-century Iran. There's one really interesting type of vessel which had a role in

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So to point out some problematic elements that seem to be overshadowed by the multimedia format of this piece and the focus on visual analysis...ahttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/02/arts/design/shah-jahan-chitarman.html 1 - "

Tweeting Historians

1/9 Modern Shi’i Islam as we know it would not exist without South Asia. It all starts in #Lucknow in North India. From 1775-1856, the city was the capital of

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Can Muslims smoke while keeping the fast in #Ramadan ? A thread on the legal debates around smoking, including shisha, during the #RamadanKareem2019 In Shi’i legal discussions, debates around smoking

Manimugdha Sharma

It's a tad surprising to see Indians cheering Turkey's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. I also see claims that the Ottoman Sultan and not the Mughal emperor