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The illustrated manuscripts of Iran in the Islamic period have various cultural, archaeological, social, historical, religious, artistic and other information, And this information is important for historians, archaeologists and scientists of various sciences. kings counted as the main supporters of creating illustrated manuscripts with different topics such as heroic, religious in the Taymurid period. So many books such as Khavaran Nameh, Shahnameh, Khamseh, rewritten and illustrated by same kings in the Taymurid period. Generally, Shahrokhi’s Merajnameh is one of the most important illustrated manuscripts in the Taymuird period and this book has almost 58 miniatures with illustrated pages that written in Turkish,Uighur and Arabic languages. Shahrokhi's Merajnameh has valuable miniatures that indicate us cultural and artistic and historical information about the Taymuird period. One of the main purpose of this article is to introduce the illustrated manuscripts in Merajnameh as one of the study sources in the field of history, art and archeology in the Taymurid period. Archaeological and artistic analysis of the miniatures of this book is another goal of this research.In this research, with fieldwork and library studies, a number of illustrated miniatures of Merajnameh have been studied with descriptive and analytical methods and sometimes with a comparative approach.The result of this research shows the importance of Merajnameh miniatures in the cultural reconstruction of the Taymurid period in Iran.

In the 5th AH / 11th AD century, the Seljuk government was formed in Iran, and over time, they were able to defeat the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad and the Eastern Roman empire in Anatolia. Before the 5th AH / 11th AD, the Anatolian region was under the domination of the Christian Romans and the churches were considered the religious architecture in this region. The purpose of this research is to investigate the evolution of Seljuks of Rum and Ottoman mosque architecture and the influencing factors in the formation of mosque architecture in the Anatolian region, which was carried out by field, library and descriptive, adaptive and analytical approaches. The results show that the architecture of early Islamic mosques , Roman architecture and Seljuks of Iran played a significant role in the formation of Seljuk architecture in Anatolia , and local architecture played an important role in the formation and evolution of Anatolian mosque architecture

Khalifeh Kandi village is located in the southeast of the Sahand mountain range and northwest of Hashtrud province. Investigation at these sites started in 2013 and continued until 2015. Obtained evidence included a variety of potteries, carved stones, and caves from the historical and Islamic eras. in this paper an attempt has been made to introduce and analyze cultural and historical founds. The result shows that most of the surveyed sites and places around Khalifeh Kandi, in terms of pottery types, belonged to the Islamic period and rarely, artifacts from the pre-Islamic period were observed. The settlements identified in the area under study are mostly located in w slopes by the river and shallow valleys, and only one of these archaeological sites was observed in flat and elevated lands. probably this site was used in certain seasons of the year. Glazed and simple pottery from the Islamic period and rough pottery that was produced in local workshops are among the artifacts observed in the surveyed sites.

During the surveys to 2014-2019, Northern Kuhdasht county was studied with the aim of identifying the potential of ancient metalwork and the existence of sites related to the metalworking activities. These Surveys have yielded eighty sites containing slag and or possible places related to industrial activities. In this research, the physical and chemical properties of slags recovered from ten places in four sites, namely Changari, Chalghesholeh, Sargiz, and Dalab, have been studied. The main purpose of this study has been to identify the type of smelting and melting techniques used in the past. For this aim, petrographic and elemental analyses have been done on the slag samples to investigate the mineralogical and chemical compositions.