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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.
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SATI BIK
Peter Jackson
Mongol princess of the Il-Khanid dynasty who reigned for about nine months in 1338, though only in name.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SAYYED AJALL
George Lane
governor of the Dali province in China during the Mongol period.
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SCERIMAN FAMILY
Sebouh Aslanian and Houri Berberian
a wealthy Persian-Armenian merchant family.
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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.
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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.
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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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