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• SATASPES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  an Achaemenid, the son of a certain Teaspis and from his mother’s side a nephew of King Darius I.

• SATI BIK

  Peter Jackson

  Mongol princess of the Il-Khanid dynasty who reigned for about nine months in 1338, though only in name.

• SATTĀR KHAN

  Anja Pistor-Hatam

  (1868-1914), defender of Tabriz during the Qajar “Lesser Autocracy” in 1908-09—an example of a mythical personage, and as a long-lasting focal point of collective memory and identity, whose symbolic function has an impact until this very day.

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• SAVDO ABDULQODIRHOJAI

  Keith Hitchins

  (1823-24-1873), Tajik lyric and satirical poet.

• ṢAWMAʿA SARĀ

  Marcel Bazin

  city and district in western Gilān.  The city is located at lat 37°17′ N, long 29°19′ E, in the Fumanāt plain, at a distance of 25 km to the west of Rašt, the center of the province.

• ŠĀYEST NĒ ŠĀYEST

  Fereydun Vahman

  (Proper and Improper), a work in the Middle Persian/Pahlavi language dealing with Zoroastrian jurisprudence and containing miscellaneous laws concerning sins, purity, and impurity.

• SAYFI QAZVINI

  Kioumars Ghereghlou

  (1481-1555), a Persian historian best known for his Lobb al-tawāriḵ, a chronicle dealing with the dynastic history of Iran from ancient times until the late 1540s.

• ŠĀYGĀN, ʿALI

  Hamid Hosseini

  (ALI SHAYEGAN; b. Shiraz, 1903; d. Westwood, New Jersey, 10 May 1981), law scholar, author, academician, and one of the closest associates of the prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

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• ŠAYḴ-ʿALI KHAN ZANGANA

  Rudi Matthee

  (1611 or 1613-1689), grand vizier for twenty years under Shah Solaymān I Ṣafawi.

• SAYR WA SOLUK

  S. J. Badakhchani

  title of the spiritual autobiography of Naṣir-al-Din Ṭusi (1201-74), celebrated polymath and vizier of under the Il-khanid.

• SAYYED AJALL

  George Lane

  governor of the Dali province in China during the Mongol period.

• SCERIMAN FAMILY

  Sebouh Aslanian and Houri Berberian

  a wealthy Persian-Armenian merchant family.

• SCHAEDER, HANS HEINRICH

  Werner Sundermann

  HANS HEINRICH (1896-1957), a major German Iranist and scholar of related disciplines.

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• SCHEFER, Charles-Henri-Auguste

  Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

  In 1833 Schefer entered the prestigious Collège Louis-le-Grand, where one of his classmates was Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). Schefer enrolled in his school's Arabic, Turkish, and Persian courses for prospective translators (jeunes de langues). 

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• SCHEIL, Jean-Vincent

  Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

  (1858-1940), Father, French philologist and archeologist.

• SCHLERATH, BERNFRIED

  Stefan Zimmer

  German scholar of Indo-European, chiefly Indo-Iranian, philology and Indo-European cultural studies.

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• SCHLIMMER, JOHANNES LODEWIK

  Willem Floor

  (1818-1876), Dutch physician who served in Iran as an instructor of medicine and became a leading pioneer in the promotion of modern medicine in Iran. His Terminologie Medico-Pharmaceutique (1874) helped standardize medical technical terms in Persian. 

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• SCHMIDT, HANNS-PETER

  Touraj Daryaee

  (1930-2017), a German Indo-Iranist who specialized in studies on Indian mythology and the Zoroastrian religion.

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• SCYTHIAN LANGUAGE

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  one of the idioms spoken by the nomadic tribes of the Eurasian steppelands along the northern edge of the home of the Iranian peoples in the Old Iranian period.

• SCYTHIANS

  Askold Ivantchik

  a nomadic people of Iranian origin who flourished in the steppe lands north of the Black Sea during the 7th-4th centuries BCE.

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