abstract victoria d. alexander, contemporary sociologist, presented her “modified cultural diamond” in completing and criticizing two approaches of reflect and forming and emphasizes key role of art world’s distributors.reflect approach is based on this fact that art always narrates from society and forming approach covering eide range of theories. their common is the idea that art having influ...

abstract reliefs are one the most important archaeological evidences to elucidate vague facts of previous cultures. this tradition has a long history in iran`s culture that revitalized in qajarians in different parts of iran, there are forty seven reliefs with engraved decoration in stone collection of taq-i-bustan, too. so far, no report or newsletter about qajarian reliefs in taq-i-bustan col...

the focus of this article is on music in ghaznavid (977 – 1186 ad) period. in addition to turkish culture, it was influenced by persian and arabic cultures. the aim of this research is to recognize the music of historical dynasty in middle iranian history (after the dominance of islam until modern times). this government is divided into three historical periods; in every period, the geographica...

the decorative patterns of islamic pottery have widespread diversity including floral, geometric, inscriptional, animals and human patterns. beside these patterns, there is a group of composed animals including harpies, sphinxes, griffins etc that despite of their few presences, are among the most beautiful and most numinous patterns in islamic pottery. this paper intend to survey different asp...

knowledge about fatimid’s textiles from the early days of islam comes mainly from egypt, where fragile materials, including linen, cotton, wool, and silk have been found as burial shrouds. these luxury fabrics were used as clothing and furnishing materials. fatimids were famous for their luxury textiles and in particular the so-called tiraz textile workshops. the persian word tiraz denotes an e...