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SRAOŠA
William W. Malandra
a major deity (yazata) in Zoroastrianism, whose great popularity reserved a place for him in Iranian Islam as the angel Surōš. In Avestan, the word occurs both as a noun and as a name. Its basic common meaning is “to hear and obey.”
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STAMPS
Cross-Reference
see PHILATELY.
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STANZAIC POETRY
Gabrielle van den Berg
Stanzaic verse forms have been part of the corpus of classical Persian poetry from the early stage onwards and have continued to play a role until modern times, alhough the quantity of stanzaic poetry in Persian literature is modest in comparison to other verse forms.
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STARK, FREYA Madeline
Malise Ruthven
British travel-writer. Her 1934 book The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels belongs to the canon of English travel literature.
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STATEIRA
Ernst Badian
a name attested for several royal women of the Achaemenid period: daughter of Hydarnes, wife of Codomannus, daughter of Darius III.
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STEEL INDUSTRY IN IRAN
Willem Floor
In 1927, plans were drawn up to establish smelting works in the north of the country to produce rail tracks domestically.
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STEIN, (Marc) Aurel
Susan Whitfield
(1862-1943), Sir, Hungarian–British archeologist and explorer, was born in Pest, Hungary and died in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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STERN, SAMUEL MIKLOS
Farhad Daftary
(1920-1969), a Hungarian-British orientalist and a leading scholar of modern Ismaʿili studies.
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STOREY, Charles Ambrose
Yuri Bregel
British orientalist, author of the bio-bibliographical survey of Persian literature (1888-1968).
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STROPHIC POETRY
Cross-Reference
See STANZAIC POETRY.