On the margins of minority life: Zoroastrians and the state in Safavid Iran

This article looks at the treatment of the Zoroastrians by central and provincial authorities in early modern Yazd, Kirman and Isfahan, emphasizing the institutional weaknesses of the central or khāsṣạ protection they were supposed to benefit from under the Safavids (907–1135/1501– 1722). It is argued that the maltreatment the Zoroastrians endured under the Safavids had little to do with religious bigotry. Rather, it arose from rivalries between the central and the provincial services of the Safavid bureaucracy, putting Zoroastrians in Yazd, Kirman, Sistan and Isfahan at risk of over-taxation, extortion, forced labour and religious persecution. The argument developed in this article pivots on the material interest of the central and the provincial agents of the Safavid bureaucracy in the revenue and labour potentials of the Zoroastrians, and the way in which the conflict of interest between these two sectors led to such acts of persecution as over-taxation, forced labour, extortion and violenc

Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Art, Race and Religion

A critical historiographical overview of art historical approaches to early medieval material culture, with a focus on the British Museum collections and their connections to religion

Aṭbāq aḏ-ḏahab

li-ʿAbd-al-Muʾmin al-Maġribī al-IṣfahanīIn arab. Schrift, arab

Fuṣūl al-ġarawīya fi-'l-uṣūl al-fiqhīya

Elektronische Reproduktion von: Fuṣūl al-ġarawīya fi-'l-uṣūl al-fiqhīya / Muḥammad Ḥusain Ibn-Muḥammad Raḥīm Ḥāʾirī Iṣfahānī. - .Tihrān, 1269 h.q. [1853/54]. - [ca. 244] Bl. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: 095 4 2019/00012. - Bemerkungen: Provenienz: Mukrī, Muḥammad (1921-2007). Steindruck. - Digitalisiert 202

Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Ms. or. 15: XV. L.S. Cod. E.: at-Taqrīb fi 'l-fiqh

Elektronische Reproduktion von: [Handschrift] Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Ms. or. 15: XV. L.S. Cod. E.: at-Taqrīb fi 'l-fiqh [unvollständig]. - [Südostasien?, ca. 1600]. - 24 Blätter. - Beschreibstoff Papier. - Blattformat 15 x 20 cm. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Ms. or. 15. - Bemerkungen: Sprachen: Arabisch, Malaiisch. Frühere Signatur: [XV. L.S. Cod. E.] . Provenienz: Schröder, Johann Wilhelm (1726 - 1793). - Ausführliche Beschreibung: Al-Toma, Adnan Jawad: Die arabischen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg; Marburg : Universitätsbibliothek, [1979]; S. 89 ff. - Bibliographischer Nachweis: https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE4Book_manuscript_00000015. - Digitalisiert 202

Translatio Latina

Autopsie nach Ex. der UB GreifswaldVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Lipsiae Sumptibus Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii. MDCCCXLVIII. - Kolophon: Lipsiae Typis Guil. Vogelii Filii