changes in the rate of women socio-political participation and presence are among the changes and developments occurred in socio-political sphere in iran in the recent decades. it is expected that as women capabilities and education rate and international interactions increase, their socio-political participation and presence especially in legislature branch increase dramatically as well. this ...

The second season of the archaeological survey of Qeshm Island was conducted during the winter of 2012, during which the team identified a total of 138 sites. The preliminary analysis of the ceramic assemblage from these sites suggests that 5 sites date to the 3rd millennium B.C.(Bronze Age) and represent the earliest in the directory. The remainder includes 3 Iron Age, 4 Achaemenid, 23 Parthia...

The production and maritime trade of salted-fish products are well documented in the western Mediterranean during Classical Roman periods. Ichthyological remains found within amphorae shipwrecks other archaeological contexts provide evidence for long-distance exchange based on biogeographical distributions fish species. Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck (mid-seventh to mid-eighth century ad ) Carmel ...

the ancient iranian prophet, manese, rose in the early days of the establishment of the sassanid empire. by mixing the customs and rituals of various religions such as christianity, judaism, buddhism and hinduism, it easily managed to approach the different nations in every region around iran and gather a large number of following. through intense opposition by the zoroastrian magi, however, ma...

The rule of law entails government accountability, equal access to justice and the political process, efficient judicial and political systems, clear laws, generally stable laws, and the protection of fundamental human rights. This paper explores whether Islamic law conforms to these principles in theory and in practice. Three conclusions are reached. First, various early Islamic institutions w...

The rapid Arab-Islamic conquest during the early Middle Ages led to major political and cultural changes in the Mediterranean world. Although the early medieval Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula is now well documented, based in the evaluation of archeological and historical sources, the Muslim expansion in the area north of the Pyrenees has only been documented so far through textual sou...

study of the works left behind from the pre-islamic culture of iran and the periods after that indicate the fact that growing the hair of one’s head and beard has not been regarded as a negative point. the faces of noble and the common people, the akaemenid kings, and the sasanid clerics indicate that shaving the head and face in the pre-islamic era had been almost unknown, except in some rare ...