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IRAN viii. PERSIAN LITERATURE (2) Classical
CHARLES-HENRI DE FOUCHÉCOUR
We will pay special attention to the early formation and origins of different literary genres in Persian works, even though the very notion of literary genres is somewhat arbitrary and a subject of continuing debate.
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IRAN viii. PERSIAN LITERATURE (3) Modern
Cross-Reference
See FICTION.
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IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (1) Pre-Islamic (1.1) Overview
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
From the 2nd millennium BCE until Islam became dominant in Iran, a remarkable number of religious traditions existed there.
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IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (1) Pre-Islamic (1.2) Manicheism
Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst and Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Called after the founding prophet Mani (216-74 or 277), Manicheism was a syncretistic religion that, combining elements of the various religions current in Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau at the time, claimed to be the ultimate religion.
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IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (2) Islam in Iran (2.1) The Advent of Islam
Hamid Algar
Persian acquaintance with Islam began already in the time of the Prophet. Well known is the case of Salmān-e Fārsi, the Persian companion of the Prophet around whom many legends have been spun.
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IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (2) Islam in Iran (2.2) Mongol and Timurid Periods
Hamid Algar
It is sometimes assumed that the general predominance of Sunnism in Persia was significantly weakened by the destruction of the ʿAbbasid caliphate by the Mongols in 1258.
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IRAN ix. RELIGIONS IN IRAN (2) Islam in Iran (2.3) Shiʿism in Iran Since the Safavids
Hamid Algar
The Safavids originated as a hereditary lineage of Sufi shaikhs centered on Ardabil, Shafeʿite in school and probably Kurdish in origin. Their immediate following was concentrated in Azerbaijan.
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IRAN x. Persian art and architecture
Multiple Authors
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IRAN xi. MUSIC
Bruno Nettl
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IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS
Victoria Arakelova
the annual international academic journal of the Caucasian Center for Iranian Studies, Yerevan (CCIS), founded in 1997.