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Qajar Bonapartism: The Model of State–Class Relationship in Qajar Iran
Published 2023-09-01“…Their possession of extensive estates, personal military forces, and substantial incomes derived from landownership, combined with a weak bureaucracy and an inefficient tax system, granted them considerable autonomy in areas under their influence.ConclusionAccording to the findings, it becomes highly challenging to conceive of the Qajar state as the entity possessing absolute power, as Marx suggests as the primary characteristic of the Asian state. In the Qajar Iran, influential social classes, including the clergy, affluent merchants, local nobility, provincial rulers, princes, large landowners, and tribal chiefs, served as intermediary layers that limited the state’s power and prevented the establishment of a supreme master or an absolute ruler. …”
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Who Was a Bahā’ī in the Upper Echelons of Qājār Iran?
Published 2023-04-01“…This paper addresses two questions: first, that of the nature of multiple religious identities in a traditional society; second, that of who can be identified as Bahā’īs in the upper echelons of Qājār Iran. The paper identifies five criteria by which individuals can be identified as having been Bahā’īs and suggests that, since none of these are usually conclusive by themselves, more than one of the criteria should be fulfilled before we label someone as a Bahā’ī. …”
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Women in Praise of Women: Female Poets and Female Patrons in Qajar Iran
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Unsuccessful Identification: Qajar Iran and the Turkmen question (1210-1343/1795-1925)
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Bread and justice in Qajar Iran: the moral economy, the free market and the hungry poor
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A preliminary study of a nineteenth-century Persian manuscript on porcelain manufacture in the Sipahsalar Library, Tehran
Published 2018“…The purpose of this essay is to introduce and review the Persian manuscript, to reveal its relation to the three-volume Traité des arts céramiques ou des poteries (Treatise on Ceramic Arts or Potteries) by Alexandre Brongniart, a nineteenth-century scientist and director of the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, and to underline its importance to the history of art and technology in Qajar Iran.…”
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The grounds for the collapse of the classical discourse of the monarchy )Case Study of Inefficiency of Two Moments of Justice and Freedom)
Published 2020-04-01“…This article seeks to show that the general crisis and disorder in Qajar Iran on the one hand and the familiarity of Iranians with the Constitutionalist discourse in the West and the moments of its discourse, such as justice and freedom, the field of marginalization of the classical discourse of monarchy and the rejection of the earlier meanings of justice and caused freedom. …”
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The grounds for the collapse of the classical discourse of the monarchy )Case Study of Inefficiency of Two Moments of Justice and Freedom)
Published 2020-04-01“…This article seeks to show that the general crisis and disorder in Qajar Iran on the one hand and the familiarity of Iranians with the Constitutionalist discourse in the West and the moments of its discourse, such as justice and freedom, the field of marginalization of the classical discourse of monarchy and the rejection of the earlier meanings of justice and caused freedom. …”
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The Qajar jurist and his ruling: A study of judicial practice in nineteenth century Iran
Published 2013“…<p>Unlike in the Ottoman world, the exercise of judicial power in nineteenth century Qajar Iran was not contingent upon formal appointment by the political authority. …”
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An Analysis of the Role of Newspapers and Their Impact on the Protests of the Nasser al-Din Shah era (1848-1896 A.D.)
Published 2020-10-01“…The phenomenon of protest turned the Nasser al-Din Shah rea into one of the most tense periods in the history of government-nation relations in Qajar Iran. Weakness of government, pervasive economic challenges, gradual transition of Iranian society from tradition to modernity, change in Iran's foreign relations, structural inefficiency and similar factors, on a relatively large scale, led to dissatisfaction and protests in most provinces of Iran. …”
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The Impact of Photography on the Visual Evolution of Lacquer Works in Qajar Period
Published 2022-09-01“…This gradual development in the visual tradition of this era could be considered as a result of the introduction of photography into Qajar Iran, particularly from the middle 19th century onward, and it continues right into the end of this dynasty, with a decline in quality.…”
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The Idea of Heritage in Nineteenth-Century Iran: Nādir Mīrzā’s Account on Tabriz
Published 2023“…However, unlike other works of this genre that mainly consist of chronicles and descriptions, I would contend that The History and Geography of Tabriz offers insight into a broader era of decay of the traditional built environment in Qajar Iran. Moreover, the city of Tabriz, situated near the Ottoman Empire and inhabited predominantly by Azari speakers, is significant from a strategic and ethnic point of view. …”
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Functional Disruption of the Constitutional Monarchy and the Transition to Enlightened Tyranny: A Functionalist Analysis of the Change in the Governance Method
Published 2023-04-01“…This makes clear the very disruption in the most fundamental functioning of the system of Qajar Iran, which, following the functional logic, effected the non-adaptation and dysfunctionality of other dimensions as well.The persistence of the situation even within the constitutional governance ultimately underscored the need for something more than legislation, leading to a conceptual change of the limit of power and adoption of Japanese and German models of establishing a centralized and powerful structure to effect the reforms demanded by the thinkers. …”
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The question of freedom within the horizon of the Iranian Constitutional Movement (1906-1921)
Published 2014“…<p>The present DPhil research attempts to develop an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural, linguistic and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in a predominantly closed society like Qajar Iran. By applying such a method the study then investigates the history of the idea of freedom in Iran during one of the most important periods in the evolution of this concept.…”
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Identifying the Causes of the Emergence of Religious Themes and Its Important Components in the Murals of Religious Monuments of the Qajar Era (Case Study: Sacred Shrines of Guilan...
Published 2022-03-01“…The number of statistical population is 31 murals from 12 historical and religious monuments of Qajar Iran that have been selected from the holy shrines of Guilan province. …”
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Comparative analytical comparative study of the "Kan Makan" story by Mikhail Naeema and "One was not the same" Jamalzadeh
Published 2020-08-01“…(Al-Khoury, 1991: 23) He spent 20 years of his life in the United States and is one of the emigrants. Although Qajar Iran was one of the most tense periods in Iranian history; But it had a profound effect on Persian literature. …”
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A psychoanalytic approach to the ideal world of simin behbahani and Ghada Al-saman from the perspective of Karen horney
Published 2021-02-01“…(Al-Khoury, 1991: 23) He spent 20 years of his life in the United States and is one of the emigrants. Although Qajar Iran was one of the most tense periods in Iranian history; But it had a profound effect on Persian literature. …”
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