#Qajar

One of my favorite Shahs of Iran of modern times, the last Shah of the Zand dynasty, Lotf Ali Khan (c. 1769-1794). Lotf Ali embodied what it meant to be
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This remarkable embroidered tent from 19th-century Iran, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, has been popping up on social media quite a bit over the last few days, so
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Today, I've been writing a bit on Sultan Murad Mirza Husam al-Saltana (1817-1883), a governor of Khurasan. There's a wonderful portrait of him, so I thought I'd do a thread
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Mithraism is a religion that spearheads the Mazdaist god Mehr (Mithras in the West) at its helm as a purveyor of light, justice, truth, covenant, and etc. In this thread
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1/ Religion was another important link between #China and #Iran in both ancient and medieval times. This thread will briefly explore the Sino-#Iranian connection in the spread of three religions
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If you ever watched a Morshed (storyteller) performing from scenes of battles,heroes,infernal serpents and paradise birds, you know the absolute joy of Naqali,the art of storytelling. This is Morshed Mirza
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Ceci n'est pas un Coran copié par Ahmed al-Nayrizi: object lesson in a "sophisticated" manuscript, to use the polite trade euphemism for something gussied-up, finicked, tweaked, or altered - not
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Iran was a democracy--of sorts--for a brief period in the 20th century. Were relations "stable and peaceful"? Not exactly. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1337460347033141248 Iran's period of constitutional governme
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1) Let’s talk about #Nakhichevan - a lost homeland. 2) The the name "Nakhichevan" in #Armenian literally means "the place of first descent", a Biblical reference to the descent of
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