The invasion of Iran by Mongols in 1217 AD had a profound impact on different aspects of social life, in which some aspects still exist and are undeniable. One of these aspects is Mongol’s folk medicine. A review of Iranian folk medicine in Qajar period shows how medicine in this period which was a mixture of oral culture and religious beliefs was influenced by Mongol’s folk medicine. By ...

Hunting was one of the most important aspects of human life in ancient times; when human considered hunting as an aspect of his own subsistence strategy and his life was dependant on it.  As time goes by, the importance of this subsistence aspect reduces; so that special places were considered as a hunting ground for entertainment. With the arrival of Islam in Iran, this process continued ...

The Quran’s illumination forms are important parts of the Iranian illumination art. This research considers the recognition of the visual features of Quranic illumination in Qajar period. The motif, color and combination of the important factors of Quranic illumination are used to classify the illumination. These factors have been selected of the Qajar period in three versions of the illu...

The history of new and scientific archaeological researches in Iran mainly dates back to the Qajar period. Although the history of European Oriental studies in Iran has exceeded the Qajar era, however, until the aforementioned period, scientific archeology in Iran did not have much meaning and European officials and Orientalists studies in Iran mainly focused on the identification of Iranian an...

Abstarct: Qajar rugs are among the richest treasures of Iranian art. In these carpets , specific kind of design and new usage were created. Motifs of these group of qajar carpets not only were affected by various literary and storied themes but also reflected by religious and mystical themes. In this way, we can mention carpets of spiritual characters and darvishes. Weaving of darvish ‘s fac...