The religious landscape. Converts, apostates, and polytheists. Confessions of an Armenian convert : the I'tirafnama of Abkar ('Ali Akbar) Armani / Rudi Matthee -- Conversion, apostasy, and relations ...

"When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman empire to align itself definitively with Sunni ...

Armenian sources from the 15th century provide distinctive viewpoints on the history of the Safaviyyih Sufi order before the foundation of the Safavid Empire. The history of T'ovma of Metsop' suggests ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Shiʿism, perhaps more than any other current of Islam, places emphasis on numerous forms of commemorative culture. Throughout the history of ...

are essential in understanding how Britain came to be. But to truly comprehend England as a Protestant nation with a distinctive identity in relation to the continent the England of the Tudors and ...

Dubai A rare collection of Safavid carpets woven during the 16th and 17th centuries has been opened to the public at the Farjam Collection at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Shaikh ...

Sunday marked the 459th anniversary of the death of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire’s longest-reigning sultan, ...

In overseeing the expansion of the Islamic art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, she countered hostile narratives about ...

TEHRAN – Scaffolding has been removed from the southern iwan of Qazvin’s Jameh Mosque after nearly 15 years, marking the completion of a major restoration project, the provincial cultural heritage ...