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ḠANI (article 2)
Prashant Keshavmurthy
Pen name of Mollā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER KAŠMĪRĪ (1630-69). He practiced the “Speaking Anew” (tāza-guʾyi) stylistics of the ḡazal that had arisen across the Persian world in the early 1500s.
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ḠANĪ, QĀSEM
Abbas Milani
Qasem Gani was a prolific writer and, during his many years abroad, corresponded with several eminent figures of the time. His diaries, notebooks, and letters have been compiled and edited in twelve volumes under the general supervision of his son, Cyrus Ghani.
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ḠANĪMAT KONJĀHĪ
Arif Naushahi
Persian poet from the Indian subcontinent, famous for composing Nīrang-e ʿešq (d. ca 1713).
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ḠANĪZĀDA, MAḤMŪD
Hassan Javadi
b. Mīrzā Ḡanī Dīlmaqānī, liberal journalist, historian, and poet (1879-1936).
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GANJ-ʿALĪ KHAN
Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
a military leader and governor of Kermān, Sīstān, and Qandahār under Shah ʿAbbās I (996-1038/1588-1629).
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GANJ-E ARŠADĪ
S. H. Askari
An Indo-Persian collection of sayings (malfūẓāt) of the Češtī saint of Jaunpour Aršad Badr-al-Ḥaqq (1047-1113/1637-1701).
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GANJ-E BĀDĀVARD
Mahmoud Omidsalar
(the treasure brought by the wind), name of one of the eight treasures of the Sasanian Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 591-628 C.E.) according to most Persian sources.
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GANJ-E ŠAKAR, Farid-al-Din Masʿud
Gerhard Böwering
Popularly known as Bābā Farid, a major Shaikh of the Češtīya mystic order, born in the last quarter of the 6th/12th century in Kahtwāl near Moltān, Punjab.
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GANJ-E ŠĀYAGĀN
Cross-Reference
See Supplement
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GANJ-NĀMA
Stuart C. Brown
(lit. treasure book), location in a pass at an altitude of about 2,000 m across the Alvand Kūh leading westward to Tūyserkān, 12 km southwest of Hamadān.
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GANJA
C. Edmund Bosworth
(Ar. Janza), the Islamic name of a town in the early medieval Islamic province of Arrān (the classical Caucasian Albania, Armenian Alvankʿ).
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GANJA, TREATY OF
Cross-Reference
See NĀDER SHAH.
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GANJAFA
Cross-Reference
See CARD GAMES.
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GANJAʾĪ, REŻĀ
Nassereddin Parvin
Ganjaʾī owes his fame to his publication of the politico-satirical weekly Bābā Šamal in 1943-45 and 1947, which became one of the most popular satirical journals in the history of journalism in Persia. Thereafter, most of his colleagues, journalists, writers, and even public figures addressed him as “Bābā Šamal.”
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GANJAK
Cross-Reference
See GANZAK.
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GANJĪNA-YE FONŪN
Nassereddin Parvin
a biweekly magazine published in Tabrīz for a year (1903-04). It was the first scholarly Persian periodical published in Persia.
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GANZABARA
Matthew W. Stolper
(treasurer), title of provincial and sub-provincial financial administrators in the Achaemenid empire, extended to workers attached to Achaemenid treasuries.
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GANZAK
Mary Boyce
a town of Achaemenid foundation in Azerbaijan. The name means “treasury” and is a Median form (against Pers. gazn-), adopted in Persian administrative use.
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GAOTƎMA
Bernfried Schlerath
an Avestan proper name only attested in Yt. 13.16: “An eloquent man will be born, who makes his words heard in verbal contests, ... victorious over the defeated Gaotəma.”
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ḠĀR
Ezzat O. Negahban
(cave) and Stone Age cave dwellers in Iran. Caves and rock shelters were particularly attractive living places for the hunter gatherers of the early Paleolithic period. The geography of the Iranian Plateau with its bordering mountain system meant that there were many cave sites which would have been suitable for early cave dwelling man.