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Arts

Music, calligraphy, painting, carpets, architecture and cinema.

  • Dastgah and radif

    Persian classical music system; the radif is on UNESCO’s Representative List (2009)

  • Calligraphy

    Nasta’liq, developed in Iran

  • Persian painting

    Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz and Isfahan schools

  • Carpets

    Fars and Kashan weaving traditions on UNESCO’s lists (2010)

  • Architecture and gardens

    Persepolis, Isfahan, the Persian garden and qanats

  • Cinema

    From the New Wave to Kiarostami, Farhadi and Panahi

  • Ta’zieh and naqqali

    Ritual drama and storytelling

  • Zurkhaneh

    Traditional athletics (UNESCO, 2010)

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Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Arts. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/arts/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Arts.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/arts/.

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@misc{idcdc2026_heritage_arts,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Arts},
	url = {https://iranians.global/heritage/arts/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/heritage/arts/},
}

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  1. Ali Ahmadi Katamjani, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Mahdi Aminian (2026). Supervised Contrastive Models for Music Information Retrieval in Classical Persian Music. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. DOI 10.5334/tismir.271
  2. FATIMA ZAHRA, SAFRIZAL SHAHIR (2023). CHARACTERISTICS OF ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY: NASTA‘LIQ, PERSIAN CALLIGRAPHY INFLUENCES ON MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE OF 17TH CENTURY. Hamdard Islamicus. DOI 10.57144/hi.v46i2.657
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  4. Michael Craig Hillmann (2025). A Cultural Aesthetics of Persian Carpets. Iranian and Persian Studies. DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-7671-2_3
  5. Nidhi Yadav, Neha Singh (2025). Woven Heritage: A Comparative Study of Design, Aesthetic, and Symbolism in Mughal and Persian Carpets. Journal Of The Textile Association (JTA). DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17608126

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  1. Supervised Contrastive Models for Music Information Retrieval in Classical Persian Music

    Ali Ahmadi Katamjani, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, Mahdi Aminian · 2026 · Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

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  2. CHARACTERISTICS OF ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY: NASTA‘LIQ, PERSIAN CALLIGRAPHY INFLUENCES ON MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE OF 17TH CENTURY

    FATIMA ZAHRA, SAFRIZAL SHAHIR · 2023 · Hamdard Islamicus

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  3. A Comparative Analysis of Musical Form in Western and Persian Classical Music

    Pedram Babaee · 2026 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  4. A Cultural Aesthetics of Persian Carpets

    Michael Craig Hillmann · 2025 · Iranian and Persian Studies

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  5. Woven Heritage: A Comparative Study of Design, Aesthetic, and Symbolism in Mughal and Persian Carpets

    Nidhi Yadav, Neha Singh · 2025 · Journal Of The Textile Association (JTA)

    ArticleZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  6. Generating Modern Persian Carpet Map by Style-transfer

    Dorsa Rahmatian, Monireh Moshavash, Mahdi Eftekhari et al. · 2023 · arXiv

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  7. The Persian Treatises as Primary Sources on Iranian Calligraphy

    Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Rebecca Stengel, Shervin Farridnejad · 2021 · A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts

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  8. Persian Classical Music Instrument Recognition (PCMIR) Using a Novel Persian Music Database

    Seyed Muhammad Hossein Mousavi, Surya Prasath · 2019 · Unpublished

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  9. Persian Carpets: A Historical Perspective

    Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz · 2025 · Iranian and Persian Studies

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  10. MINOO MOALLEM, Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity (New York: Routledge, 2018)

    Evelyn Alsultany · 2019 · Mashriq & Mahjar

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  11. Woven Words: The Semiotic Symphony of Kermān Carpets in Persian Culture

    Saieed Moslemi Nezhad Arani · 2025 · Iranian and Persian Studies

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  12. Persian classical music

    (:Unav) · 2012 · Nimbus Records

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