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ADHYARDHAŚATIKĀ PRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ
R. E. Emmerick
(“The perfection of wisdom in 150 lines”), title of a Praǰñāpāramitā text in Tantric.
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ADIABENE
D. Sellwood
a district near the present-day borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
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ADIB ḴᵛĀNSARI
Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr
a major vocalist of Persia in the first half of 20th century (1901-1982).
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ADĪB NAṬANZĪ
ʿA. N. Monzawī
poet and linguist of the 5th/11th century, from Naṭanz, near Isfahan.
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ADĪB NĪŠĀBURĪ
J. Matīnī
Persian litterateur and poet (19th century).
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ADĪB PĪŠĀVARĪ
Munibur Rahman
poetic name of SAYYED AḤMAD B. ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN RAŻAWĪ (1844-1930).
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ADĪB ṢĀBER
Ḏ. Ṣafā
famous poet of the first half of the 6th/12th century.
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ADĪB ṬĀLAQĀNĪ
M. Momen
prominent Iranian Bahaʾi author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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ADĪB-AL-MAMĀLEK FARĀHĀNĪ
Munibur Rahman
poet and journalist (1860-1917).
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ĀDĪNEVAND
P. Oberling
a small Lur tribe of Lorestān which lives the year round in the baḵš of Ṭarhān.
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ʿADL, Aḥmad-Ḥosayn
Bāqer ʿĀqeli
minister of agriculture, Director General of the Plan Organization, and the first director of the College of Agronomy (1898-1963). He did much to advance industrial development in Isfahan, both holding cabinet positions in the government and contributing in the private sector.
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ʿADL, MOṢṬAFĀ
Bāqer ʿĀqeli
In 1945, as the head of the Iranian delegation in San Francisco, ʿAdl gave a persuasive lecture arguing for de-occupation of Iran and ayment of reparations for damage caused by the war. He attended the assembly of the United Nations, and struggled for the recognition of the rights of Iran and her territorial integrity.
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ʿADL-E MOẒAFFAR
J. Calmard, L. P. Elwell-Sutton
“Moẓaffar’s justice,” a phrase connected with the events of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) and the name of a newspaper.
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ADLER, ELKAN NATHAN
Dalia Yasharpour
avid traveler and collector of Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, and Judeo-Tajik manuscripts from the Jewish Persian and Bukharan communities (1861-1946). In 1921, personal circumstances compelled Adler to sell his manuscript and book collections to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati and the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran
Multiple Authors
This entry covers state administration in Iran in the modern period, from the rise of the Safavids to the fall of the Pahlavis in 1979.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran i. Achaemenid Period
Cross-Reference
See ACHAEMENID DYNASTY.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran ii. Arsacid/Parthian Period
Cross-Reference
See ARSACIDS.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran iii. Sasanian Period
Cross-Reference
See SASANIAN DYNASTY.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran iv. Early Islamic Period
Cross-Reference
See under ʿABBASID CALIPHATE and BUYIDS.
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ADMINISTRATION in Iran v. Medieval Period
Cross-Reference
See under GHAZNAVIDS and IL-KHANIDS.