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

Translatio Latina

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

Hamzae Ispahanensis Annalium Libri X

Edidit I. M. E. Gottwaldt, Dr. Phil.Petropoli Sumtibus Editoris. Lipsiae In Commissis Apud Leopoldum VossBd. 2 ersch.: Lipsiae : Voge

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

Textus Arabicus

Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Petropoli Sumtibus Editoris. Lipsiae In Commissis Apud Leopoldum Voss. MDCCCXLIV. - Rückseite der Haupttitelseite: Lipsiae, Typis Guilielmi Vogelii, Filii.In arab. Schr., arab. - Einf. in lat

Commencement du كتاب الاغانى d'Abou ʾl-Faradj al-Iṣfahânî.

كتاب الاغانىNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Ce fragment se termine par les premières lignes de la notice sur العرجى. Vignette en or et en couleurs en tête du ms

Fragment du كتاب الاغانى d'Abou ʾl-Faradj al-Iṣfahânî.

كتاب الاغانىNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Commençant au milieu de la notice sur Ibrâhîm al-Mauṣilî, et se terminant par la notice sur Al-Moraqqisch al-Aṣghar (ms. 3292, fol. 322 v° à 3293, fol. 11). Il y a quelques lacunes et plusieurs feuillets sont intervertis. Ms. maghrebin espagnol