Research Paper
The Great Game and the Herat Question (1828 – 1838)
The Great Game and the Herat Question (1828 – 1838)

Farajolah Ahmadi; Arwin Ghaemian

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.278907.473098

Abstract
  The Great Game of Russia and Britain, which began in the early nineteenth century, led to the confrontation of the two powers in Iran until the early twentieth century. The Russian-British ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Origin of the Headgear on Early Arsacid Coins (from Arsaces I to Mithradates I)
The Origin of the Headgear on Early Arsacid Coins (from Arsaces I to Mithradates I)

Ehsan Afkande; Fateme Afshari

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 21-41

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.276734.473087

Abstract
  Scholars, in their study of Parthian numismatics, mostly emphasize the Hellenistic and Persian-Achaemenid heritage and ignore Scythian cultural elements. One of the most important motifs ...  Read More
Research Paper
Were Sasanians of Priestly Lineage?
Were Sasanians of Priestly Lineage?

Pedram Jam

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 43-62

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2020.265049.473032

Abstract
  Sasanians’ converting to Zoroastrianism and their relations with Zoroastrian clerics have been important issues of the history studies on the Sasanians. In the past one and a ...  Read More
Research Paper
Cannoneers in the Safavid Era: From Art to Profession
Cannoneers in the Safavid Era: From Art to Profession

Mojtaba Tabrizniatabrizi; Abdolrasool Kheirandish

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 63-81

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2020.246048.472906

Abstract
  The title Cannoneer (Tūpchibāshi) became widespread with the increasing use of firearms since the early Safavid Era. According to the first references to this position during the ...  Read More
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An Investigation of Ghazali and Averroes’s Conflict Regarding the Relation between Religion and Reason from a Historical Point of View
An Investigation of Ghazali and Averroes’s Conflict Regarding the Relation between Religion and Reason from a Historical Point of View

Mojtaba Zurvani; Reza taheri

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 83-102

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.227055.472787

Abstract
  The conflict between reason and religion in the Iranian medieval history is an issue affected by the scientific sources of Muslims from the early centuries of the Islamic Era. Regardless ...  Read More
Research Paper
An Analysis of the Tactics of  the Jungle Movement in the Battle against the English Troops
An Analysis of the Tactics of the Jungle Movement in the Battle against the English Troops

Aboutaleb Soltanian

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 103-122

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2020.281053.473116

Abstract
  In the final years of the First World War, the Jungle Movement went into a battle against the English troops resulted from the military changes of the Caucasian region. The English ...  Read More
Research Paper
Egyptian Rebellion: Athens’s Strategy for Causing Divergence in the Achaemenid Empire and the Policy of Artaxerxes I
Egyptian Rebellion: Athens’s Strategy for Causing Divergence in the Achaemenid Empire and the Policy of Artaxerxes I

Alireza Soleymanzadeh

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 123-142

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2020.254004.472953

Abstract
  There were few governments in ancient Iran that were completely protected from political turmoil and instability. The studies on the history of the Achaemenid Empire two centuries after ...  Read More
Research Paper
Onomastics and Historical Sciences Studies
Onomastics and Historical Sciences Studies

Emad ad-Din Sheikh al-Hokamaee; Ramina Rezvan

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 143-166

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.284208.473140

Abstract
  Onomastics (or onomatology) refers to the study of proper names of any kind including the names of people (anthroponyms) and places (toponyms). The purpose of this article is to explain ...  Read More
Research Paper
Some Notes on the Revision of the Chronology of the Coins of the “Dark Age” of the Arsacid
Some Notes on the Revision of the Chronology of the Coins of the “Dark Age” of the Arsacid

Kolsoum Ghazanfari; Soroosh Sharifian

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 167-185

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.267226.473041

Abstract
  Revision of the genealogy and chronology of the Arsacid dynasty has been the pivot of Farhad Assar’s studies in recent years. Simonetta, who finds errors in Assar’s schema, ...  Read More
Research Paper
A Historical Approach to the Story of “Tabriz’s Muhtasib” in Rumi’s Masnavi
A Historical Approach to the Story of “Tabriz’s Muhtasib” in Rumi’s Masnavi

Yazdan Farrokhi

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 187-206

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2020.268823.473047

Abstract
  The poetic and mystical aspects of Rumi’s Masnavi are very striking, but, as in other texts, the influence of the poet’s historical era is detectible so that it reflects ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Iranian Diaspora in North Caucasus: A Study on the Records of the Iranian Consulate in Vladikavkaz (1897-1919)
The Iranian Diaspora in North Caucasus: A Study on the Records of the Iranian Consulate in Vladikavkaz (1897-1919)

Ali Kalirad

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 207-230

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.289901.473166

Abstract
  The city of Vladikavkaz, founded during the expansion of the Russian Empire to the Caucasus in the late eighteenth century, gradually attracted immigrants from inside and outside the ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Functions and Scope of Authority of “Majles-e Behesht-Ayin” (The Royal Assembly of the Safavid Senior Officials)
The Functions and Scope of Authority of “Majles-e Behesht-Ayin” (The Royal Assembly of the Safavid Senior Officials)

Ali Mashhadi Rafi; Mohammad Bagher Vosoughi

Volume 11, Issue 2 , March 2020, Pages 231-250

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2019.281743.473120

Abstract
  The Safavid government, like many other monarchies in the history of Iran, had a bureaucratic and patrimonial structure. Although such a political system appears at first glance to ...  Read More