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Author | : Arash Khazeni |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520279077 |
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This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.
Author | : Kathy Krechting |
Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2020-09-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1098026403 |
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What do you do when you lose something important? Do you blame others? Do you get angry? Eilee lost something important to her and now must decide how to handle the situation. Should she stand her ground or show forgiveness?
Author | : Arash Khazeni |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520282558 |
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This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise--a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth--and its discovery and export as a global commodity. In the material culture and imperial regalia of early modern Islamic tributary empires moving from the steppe to the sown, turquoise was a sacred stone and a potent symbol of power projected in vivid color displays. From the empires of Islamic Eurasia, the turquoise trade reached Europe, where the stone was collected as an exotic object from the East. The Eurasian trade lasted into the nineteenth century, when the oldest mines in Iran collapsed and lost Aztec mines in the Americas reopened, unearthing more accessible sources of the stone to rival the Persian blue. Sky Blue Stone recounts the origins, trade, and circulation of a natural object in the context of the history of Islamic Eurasia and global encounters between empire and nature.
Author | : Marcell Nelson Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Beads |
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Author | : Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1798 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Postage stamps |
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Author | : Pavel Florensky |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691187991 |
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Pavel Florensky--certainly the greatest Russian theologian of the last century--is now recognized as one of Russia's greatest polymaths. Known as the Russian Leonardo da Vinci, he became a Russian Orthodox priest in 1911, while remaining deeply involved with the cultural, artistic, and scientific developments of his time. Arrested briefly by the Soviets in 1928, he returned to his scholarly activities until 1933, when he was sentenced to ten years of corrective labor in Siberia. There he continued his scientific work and ministered to his fellow prisoners until his death four years later. This volume is the first English translation of his rich and fascinating defense of Russian Orthodox theology. Originally published in 1914, the book is a series of twelve letters to a "brother" or "friend," who may be understood symbolically as Christ. Central to Florensky's work is an exploration of the various meanings of Christian love, which is viewed as a combination of philia (friendship) and agape (universal love). Florensky is perhaps the first modern writer to explore the so-called "same-sex unions," which, for him, are not sexual in nature. He describes the ancient Christian rites of the adelphopoiesis (brother-making), joining male friends in chaste bonds of love. In addition, Florensky is one of the first thinkers in the twentieth century to develop the idea of the Divine Sophia, who has become one of the central concerns of feminist theologians.
Author | : Yi Gen |
Publisher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2020-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 163654150X |
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Dragons entering the sea, tigers returning to the mountain! Before the Dragon Soul Soldier King even returned to the city, he actually borrowed money from his beautiful wife for lack of money ...
Author | : Wade, Frank B. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Frank P. Bennett & Co |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Cotton fabrics |
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Instructions on "scrim," "hammock crash," "crinolin," etc., including the carding particulars, speed of the beater, drawing frame instructions, dyeing particulars.