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  • TADWIN, AL-

    K. Morimoto

    a local biographical dictionary of Qazvin in Arabic compiled by ʿAbd-al-Karim Rāfeʿi Qazvini.

  • TAFAŻŻOLI, AḤMAD

    Philippe Gignoux

    On his way back to Iran, Tafazzoli stayed for a few months in Paris, where he conducted research and made acquaintance with Father Jean de Menasce, a noted scholar in Iranian studies, whom he later assisted in his translation of the third book of Dēnkard.

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  • TAFT

    EIr, based on an article submitted by Ali Modarres

    town and district in Yazd province.

  • TAHERIDS

    Elton L. Daniel

    (Pers. Āl-e Ṭāher), name of a prominent family of the early Abbasid period and more particularly a line of governors of Khorasan (821-73) from that family. Many of the Taherids, governors, and lesser officials, in Khorasan and in Iraq, were celebrated patrons of the arts, and adab literature is filled with anecdotes about their largesse and their appreciation of wit, wisdom, and bon mots.

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  • ṬAHMĀSP I

    Colin P. Mitchell

    (1524-1576), second ruler of the Safavid dynasty. His 52-year reign was the longest of all Safavid rulers.

  • TĀJ AL-SALĀṬIN

    M. Ismail Marcinkowski

    a book in the genre of Mirror for Princes written in Malay by Boḵāri Jawhari (fl. early 17th cent.).

  • TĀJ-al-SALṬANA

    Afsaneh Najmabadi

    (1884-1936), one of the best known daughters of the Qajar king Nāṣer-al-Din Shah (r. 1848-96), due to her memoirs (Ḵāterāt), written in 1914, which were first partially published in 1969 and whose authenticity has been disputed.

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  • TAJADDOD

    Nassereddin Parvin

    (Modernity), a newspaper published as the official organ of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, of which a total of 202 issues appeared in Tabriz.

  • TAJIK

    Multiple Authors

    i. The Ethnonym: Origins and Application. ii. Tajik Persian. iii. Colloquial Tajiki in Comparison with Persian of Iran.

  • TAJIK i. THE ETHNONYM: ORIGINS AND APPLICATION

    John Perry

    The Tajiks are an Iranian people, speaking a variety of Persian, concentrated in the Oxus Basin, the Farḡāna valley (Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan) and on both banks of the upper Oxus.