Art
Malihe Tahmasbi; Zeinab Saber
Abstract
Studies in the field of Islamic arts, given that it has a long history, has always faced challenges. One of these challenges is the term Islamic arts itself, which has attracted the attention of many domestics and foreign scholars in the contemporary period. In this article, an attempt has been made ...
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Studies in the field of Islamic arts, given that it has a long history, has always faced challenges. One of these challenges is the term Islamic arts itself, which has attracted the attention of many domestics and foreign scholars in the contemporary period. In this article, an attempt has been made to review the book Pira-Islamic Art (Critical Analysis of Dominant Discourses in the Study of Islamic Art) by Sadegh Rashidi. The author criticizes two historical and traditionalist discourses and states that Islamic art does not meet the needs of art study in contemporary society and suggests that the discourse of Pira-Islamic art should beused instead of Islamic art. The present article examines and analyzes the historical and traditionalist discourse on the strengths and weaknesses of the book and the views of critics. Although , in line with the opinion of the author of the book, the discourse of Islamic art does not correspond to the vast geography of Islamic lands , but the discourse of Pira-Islamic art presented in this book should also provide a clearer methodology.
Linguistics and Ancient Languages
Shima Jaafari Dehaghi
Abstract
Šahrestānīhā ī ērānšahr is a Middle Persian treatise about the historical geography of Sasanian cities in Iran. So far, this treatise has been translated and published in Persian by Hedayat, Oriyan, Taffazoli, and Daryaee. In 2002, Daryaee published this text with Persian and English ...
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Šahrestānīhā ī ērānšahr is a Middle Persian treatise about the historical geography of Sasanian cities in Iran. So far, this treatise has been translated and published in Persian by Hedayat, Oriyan, Taffazoli, and Daryaee. In 2002, Daryaee published this text with Persian and English translation, and in 2009, Jalilian translated Daryaee’s book into Persian. In the present study, we examined Jalilian’s translation of this treatise. It is noteworthy that Jalilian mentioned in his book that the translation of the Middle Persian text is from Daryaee himself. To make the review more accurate and to compare it with other translations, Daryaee and Taffazoli’s translations are cited and compared. First, the transliteration of each sentence is mentioned, and then the translation is written in chronological order. Then, the review of the translations is mentioned. It can be concluded that each of the translations of Middle Persian texts into Persian has new points that, in turn, will help us to better understand Middle Persian texts and ancient Iranian thought.
History
Hamidreza Peighambari; Hasan Alahyari
Abstract
The study of marine history is one of the important cases in historical research. However, insufficient research has been done in this field in Persian language, and it was frequently investigated by non-academic writers. “The Atlas of Ports and Maritime History of Iran” is compiled by a ...
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The study of marine history is one of the important cases in historical research. However, insufficient research has been done in this field in Persian language, and it was frequently investigated by non-academic writers. “The Atlas of Ports and Maritime History of Iran” is compiled by a group of researchers supervised by two professors in the history field. In general, this article, as a review paper, tries to identify and scrutinize the strengths and weaknesses of the book in addition to improving its scientific quality for the future issues. To sum up, the comprehensiveness and utilization of various sources and research by using useful maps, clear illustrations, and sufficient tables can be proposed as the strengths of the book, while the dispersion and heterogeneity of the content and disaffiliation of the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea section with the Caspian Sea section are the major weaknesses of the book.
History
Mohsen Rahmati
Volume 18, Issue 1 , April 2018, , Pages 161-184
Abstract
The present paper reviews the explanatory and interpretive position of the book "An Introduction to the Historical Geography of the Transoxiana (in the Early Islamic Centuries)" in two positive and negative perspectives. Transoxiana, as the easternmost state of the Iranian and Islamic worlds during the ...
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The present paper reviews the explanatory and interpretive position of the book "An Introduction to the Historical Geography of the Transoxiana (in the Early Islamic Centuries)" in two positive and negative perspectives. Transoxiana, as the easternmost state of the Iranian and Islamic worlds during the early Islamic centuries, had undeniable and close cultural, economic, social and political links with other regions of the Muslim world, yet its geographical boundaries and features are not much well known. Introduced as a textbook for history students, the present book marks the beginning of a new flow in Transoxiana research. The positive points of the book include the importance of the subject and the different content processing of the book, but the its drawbacks include ambiguity of the issue, the inconsistency of the title and the content, the lack of use of all the major sources, the lack of scrutiny and the necessary attention in using new research, failure to follow scientific standards in formulating the book, and the existence of content and edition mistakes in the text.
