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        1 - The Representation of Sacred Lineage of Caliphate on the Coins of the Second Century
        Hossein Mohseni Hamidreza Azarinia
        The sacred lineage of Imamate/Caliphate is one of the most challenging problems in the Islamic society in the first century.  Prophet's family occupied a privileged position in political atmosphere of Muslims from the earliest period. This article puts forward the More
        The sacred lineage of Imamate/Caliphate is one of the most challenging problems in the Islamic society in the first century.  Prophet's family occupied a privileged position in political atmosphere of Muslims from the earliest period. This article puts forward the history of the controversies on the sacred lineage among the Hashimtes and Umayyids and then the Hashimites and Alavids and Abbasids through the study of the coins minted in this period. The struggles of the Abbasids and Alavids in the sacred lineage and the concession of Caliphate in Imam Ali's progeny caused in long-term disputes that could be traced through the coins. These disputes lead to mint of various coins that contained the representation of sacred lineage of caliphate from the Prophet's progeny via Imam Ali and Fatima in the years 145-200 H. Eventually, the Abbasids had to withdraw their previous approach of the rejection of Alavids legitimacy of leadership in the Ma'mun's reign and tried to have a turn into the Alavids that appeared in the coins of the Imam Reza's crown prince. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Historical Developments in East Iran during the Sassanid Period
        Fereidoun Nahidi Azar Farhang Khademi Nadoushan
        Immigrant people who had rushed to the eastern part of Iran since the time of Achaemenian up to the time of Sassanian and then had dwelt there by passage of time played an important role in politics and economical relationships of this region. In this article, we w More
        Immigrant people who had rushed to the eastern part of Iran since the time of Achaemenian up to the time of Sassanian and then had dwelt there by passage of time played an important role in politics and economical relationships of this region. In this article, we will discuss about the process of invasions of these new-comer people from eastern north borders to the Territory of Sassanid Empire. The main goal of this article is to survey and show the manner of cultural relationship and interaction of Sassanid culture and civilization with these people and capacity of culture acceptance with these cultures and tensions or accomplished developments in this mutual confrontation. Several multi dimensional contacts between Iran and its eastern neighbours in most of the cases had been compressed and foreign cultures had interacted and principally the culture that has deeper origin will have more effects in the culture of its opponent. In this time importance of eastern part of Iran was in the extent that this region had become one of the main obsessions of Sassanians and some agents of Sassanid government in Koshan (Koshan Shah) and Sakestan (Sokan Shah). In the absence of any written resources, archaeological findings reflect required informations. From among the most important of these archaeological findings, are Sassanid coins that to some extent determine the governments' territory. These coins were imitated and sampled by the kings of Gajarat, Koshan and Hons. Hons were highly influenced by Sassanid culture and transferred it to India and paved the way for immigration of Zoroastrian Iranian to this region in the later periods. Manuscript profile