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Focusing primarily on the late sixth-century Cause of the Foundation of the Schools , this dissertation provides an intellectual and institutional history of the School of Nisibis, the major intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries a…

The history of the ancient Persian province of Isfahan and the city of the same name on the Iranian Plateau, prior to the 11th -12 th centuries, have received little scholarly attention. The present dissertation offers an account of certain aspects of the history of Isfahan, dur…