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Ritual Impurity and the Decline of the Safavid Dynasty Undergraduate
(2018)
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the Safavid dynasty and the establishment of Iran as a stronghold of Shi'a Islam. The body of research on these two centuries of Persian history provides us with a ...
Zoroastrians: Becoming a Minority in Their Homeland Undergraduate
(2018)
It is arguable that no other religion has had more direct and indirect influence on humankind than that of the ancient Zoroastrian faith. This religion, which was the firstborn of the revealed world-religions, existed long ...
The Value of Virtue: Depictions of Class and Morals in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
(2018)
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is no stranger to cinema's ability to encourage values and moral standards in a society. Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has recognized the power of cinema and, in ...