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• ESTEBDĀD-E ṢAGĪR

  Cross-Reference

  "the lesser tyranny." See CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION.

• ESTEBṢĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ṬŪSĪ, ABŪ JAʿFAR.

• EŠTEHĀRD

  Mīnū Yūsof-nežād

  a town and district (baḵš) in the province of Tehran.

• EŠTEHĀRDĪ

  Gernot L. Windfuhr

  the easternmost of the nine Southern Tati (Tātī) dialects and sharing with the others most phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical features. These are part of a band of dialects extending from the Aras River to central Persia and farther east.

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• ESTEḴĀRA

  Cross-Reference

  See DIVINATION.

• ESTEQLĀL

  Nassereddin Parvin

  newspaper published by the constitutionalists who had taken refuge in the Ottoman consulate in Tabrīz during the Russian occupation of the city in 1909.

• ESTEQLĀL-e ĪRĀN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  an evening daily published in Tehran from 31 May 1910-17 August 1911; it was the organ of the small Unity and Progress party (Ḥezb-e ettefāq o taraqqī) and was published by the party’s leader, the well-known constitutionalist Zayn-al-ʿĀbedīn Mostaʿān-al-Molk

• ESTHER AND MORDECHAI

  Amnon Netzer

  a Jewish shrine in the city of Hamadān, where, according to Judeo-Persian tradition, Esther and Mordechai are buried.

• ESTHER, BOOK OF

  Shaul Shaked

  a short book of the Old Testament, written in Hebrew.

• ESTRĀBĀD

  Cross-Reference

  See ASTARĀBĀD.