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Intervista con Simone Cristoforetti
No full textIl presente libro è il risultato di otto interviste condotte in video, sulla base del programma dell’Archivio Orale della Biblio- teca Nazionale dell’Iran, e di due interviste per iscritto, commis- sionate dall’Istituto Culturale dell’Ambasciata della R.I. dell’Iran. L'intervista con Simone Cristoforetti dell'Università Ca' foscari di Venezia è stata effettuata il 25 novembre 2017 nella biblioteca privata del Prof. Gianroberto Scarcia a Roma
Ruhā in the Persian sources: an elusive presence
No full textThis book presents results of an archaeological research project focused on a specific monumental area, the citadel, in the city of Urfa (Turkey), known in ancient times as Edessa. The main purpose of the article is to present and contextualize the information on the citadel of Urfa available in the Persian sources
Immagini di Persia dall’archivio di Gianroberto Scarcia.
Full text linkTrattasi della presentazione di una parte dell'archivio fotografico di Gianroberto Scarcia. Le immagini presentate sono tratte dalla sezione relativa all'Iran risalente alla fine degli anni Cinquanta del Novecento. La fotografia di G. Scarcia viene qui presentata attraverso una disamina dei materiali scritti dal fotografo in lavori dedicati ad argomenti relativi all'estetica
S. Hasan Taqizadeh, Mani e la sua religione
No full texttraduzione dal persiano, di Cristoforetti, del saggio di S. Hasan Taqizadeh, Mani va Din-eu /Mani e la sua religione). Note al testo di Taqizadeh a cura di S. Cristoforetti e A. Piras; nota bibliografica di A. Pira
Unveiling the Unwritten: Nuanced Narratives from "Ismaili Castles".
No full textThis study takes a fresh look at the idea of ʻIsmaili castles,ʼ focusing on the structures still observable in Quhistān (South Khorasan, Iran). The author challenges the common view that these fortifications share a meaningful Ismaili identity or attribution. By drawing on field re- search, iconographic studies, and a close reading of historical texts, the research shows that many of the mountainous fortifications in today’s South Khorasan display a multifaceted chro- nology—some pre-dating the Islamic era. Although these structures are often thought of as safe havens or power centres for the Ismailis, evidence indicates that many of them were built before the Islamic period and had multiple functions. The author further suggests that what is needed is a closer look at how these buildings fit within their broader landscapes and socio- economic contexts and argues for rethinking the long-held label of ʻIsmaili castles.ʼ In doing so, it makes a broader point regarding new research methods and a more nuanced understanding of the political and territorial dynamics of the premodern world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
La Risāla dar taḥqīq-i Nawrūz di Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī.
No full textThe Risāla dar taḥqīq-i Nawrūz by Sayyid Amīr Ismāʿīl Khātūnābādī Iṣfahānī is dedicated to the history of the Iranian festival of Nawrūz, to the exact way of calculating its occurrence in the various eras and to the legitimacy of its celebration from the Shiite religious point of view. Due to these content characteristics, the operetta falls into the genre of nawrūziyya, compositions on various subjects dedicated to the Iranian New Year. The author indicates the reason that prompted him to compose the work in a controversy that arose between the learned Shiite jurisprudence of his time (second half of the 18th century) regarding a question of religious orthopraxis. It was a matter of establishing what was the exact moment in which to commemorate the event of Ghadīr Khumm, when ‒ according to the Shiite tradition ‒ the Prophet Muḥammad would have indicated his cousin ʿAlī as his successor at the helm of the newborn Muslim community. In fact, in the author's time in Persia the commemoration of the events of Ghadīr Khumm was officially celebrated in Nawrūz coinciding with the beginning of the year of the Persian solar calendar on the first day of spring, as required by a solid and ancient Shiite tradition. This tradition, both popular and scriptural, maintains that the event of Ghadīr Khumm took place at Nawrūz, even if this coincidence can be seriously questioned on the basis of chronological calculation. Furthermore, there is also the problem posed by the historical existence in the past of various possibilities for calculating the Nawrūz, since the Nawrūz became a fixed seasonal festival connected with the vernal equinox only in the second half of the 11th century
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