Article ID: CBB355949491

The Conceptual Image of the Planets in Ancient Iran and the Process of Their Demonization: Visual Materials and Models of Inclusion and Exclusion in Iranian History of Knowledge (September 2020)

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Panaino, Antonio (Author)


NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 359-389


Publication Date: September 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Imagining the Heavens. Historiographical Challenges and Eurasian Perspectives
Language: English

The present contribution offers an overview of the main problems concerning the representation of the planets in the pre-Islamic Iranian world, the origin of their denominations, their astral roles and the reasons behind their demonization in the Zoroastrian and Manichaean frameworks. This is a preliminary attempt to resume the planetary iconography and iconology in western and eastern Iranian sources, involving also external visual data, such as those coming from Dunhuang and the Chinese world. The article offers an intellectual journey into a net of mutual cultural and spiritual relations, focusing on the image of the heaven (and of its celestial beings), thereby proposing a new synthesis and highlighting a number of intercultural contaminations.

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Article Sonja Brentjes; Dagmar Schäfer (September 2020) Visualizations of the Heavens Before 1700 as a Concern of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 295-304). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Mozaffari, S. Mohammad
Fatemeh Keyghobadi
Lockard, Joe
Savadi, Fatemeh
Nikfahm Khubravan, Sajjad
Concepts
Astronomy
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Iconography
Persian language
Prehistory, antiquity, and traditional societies
Zoroastrianism
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
16th century
Safavid dynasty
Timurid Dynasty (1370-1507)
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Places
Persia (Iran)
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Transoxiana
Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
Arabian peninsula
Institutions
Adler Planetarium, Chicago
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