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@Rob_Haug here a little later today and this time we will be focusing on the Arab-Muslim conquest of eastern Iran and Central Asia. The east played an important role in
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@Rob_Haug back for day four of the eastern frontier. Yesterday I started talking about the eastern frontiers of the Sasanian Empire, but, surprisingly, had trouble fitting four centuries into a
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As a refresher, the Kushans were Iranian nomads who settled in Bactria and, in the first century CE, built an empire that covered most of modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern
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Hi everyone. @Rob_Haug checking in. I want to begin by thanking @sasanianshah for not only inviting me to take over this handle for the week (when I know quarantines mean
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1/9organic materials– including full kaftans– amazingly survive from 6-9c CE Alanic cemeteries in the foothills and mountainous regions of the N. Caucasus. This autumn I traveled to the N. Caucasus
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1/5Why did diverse members of diverse communities across Central Eurasia all wear a kaftan? The kaftan’s unique combination of design features provided a sartorial language that could articulate mutable social
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1/16 the Sogdian formal banquet takes us to a gathering room in a large house in the residential district of 8c CE Panjikent (present-day Tajikistan). a built-in bench lined this
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1/21I argue that 3 sets of 8c Sogdian wall paintings, which depict men drinking from rhyta, show parameters & protocols of a lively drinking game. we are going back to
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(Day 3. Iran and the Malay-Indonesian World)On the #Jawi and #Persian Languages, common terms and literature with photos :1/Arabic was mainly introduced as the written language of Islam (mainly its
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Day5/ Persian and Malay Folk Stories (Hikayat) Muhammad Hanafiyyah from Iran to the Malay-Indonesian World1/In contrast to the genre of Kitab (religious works and tracts) which were for the purpose
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