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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Sasanian"”.
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Dynamics of Land Use, Environment, and Social Organization in the Sasanian Landscape of Eastern Iraq—Western Iran
… Eastern territorial empires in general, and the Sasanian Empire in particular, primarily emphasized the dominant role of human on landscape transformation. In addition, politically centralized schemes such as agricultural intensification and expansion of water supply systems have been at the …
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Local Elites, Empires, and Responses to the Rise of Islam in the Roman-Sasanian Northern Frontier Region, 640-726
… contested ‘northern frontier region’ between the Sasanian and Roman empires. Through a critical examination of sources ranging from well-known works of historiography (including the History attributed to Sebēos) to a range of less well-studied, purportedly contemporary documents (including the …
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… A millennium later, in quiet enclaves of the Sasanian Empire of pre-Islamic Iran, a melting-pot of heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities, dominated by Zoroastrian culture, the Babylonian Talmud, the culmina- tion of generations of Rabbinic oral discussion of Torah law, was born. …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Sasanian, Roman and Aksūmite) and at the center of a lucrative network of trade routes. The project pulls together the various strands of the composite cultural and political milieu of the region, situating its history in relation to the broader …
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The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
… of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> (and related material) set Shapur's persecution within the context of Constantine's support for …
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Searching for the origins of early Islamic brass-making in Western Asia
In the early part of the second millennium AD, brass emerged as a major form of Islamic metalworking, with the production of highly decorated objects in a variety of forms and styles. However, we know comparatively little about the background to this development, and particularly its association …