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GOLPĀYEGĀNI DIALECT
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See CENTRAL DIALECTS.
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GÖLPINARLI, ABDÜLBAKI
Tahsin Yazıcı
(1900-1982), Turkish scholar noted in particular for his studies of the Turkish Sufi orders. He joined many Sufi orders without remaining in any of them for long. His greatest interests were in Shiʿism and the Mevlevi (Mawlawiya) order.
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GOLŠAHRI, SOLAYMĀN
EIr
or GÜLŞEHRÎ; 13th century Ottoman Sufi and poet who wrote in Persian and Turkish.
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GOLŠĀʾIĀN, ʿABBĀSQOLI
Abbas Milani
After private schooling at home, Golšāʾiān studied at the French-run Alliance Française and at the Dār al-fonun. In 1920, he enrolled in the new law school created by the Ministry of Justice (ʿAdliya). After completing the required courses in two years, he was employed at the same ministry.
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GOLŠAN
Nassereddin Parvin
cultural magazine published in the early days of 1917 in Tehran by Sayyed Reżā Yazdi “Amir Reżwāni” (d. 1936), first twice a week and from its sixth year three times a week.
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GOLŠAN ALBUM
Kambiz Eslami
or Moraqqaʿ-e golšan; a sumptuous 17th-century album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and engravings by Mughal, Persian, Deccani, Turkish, and European artists in the Golestān Palace Library, Tehran.
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GOLŠAN DEHLAVI, Shah SAʿD-ALLĀH
Moinuddin Aqeel
b. Ḵᵛāja Moḥammad-Saʿid (1664-1728), Naqšbandi Sufi and prolific poet in Persian with the pen name (taḵallosá) Golšan.
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GOLŠAN-E MORĀD
John R. Perry
a history of the Zand Dynasty (1751-94) by Mirzā Moḥammad Abu’l-Ḥasan Ḡaffāri.
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GOLŠAN-E RĀZ
Hamid Algar
lit. "The Rose Garden of Mysteries"; a concise didactic matnawi in a little over a thousand distichs on the key terms and concepts of Sufism, which has for long served as a principal text of theoretical mysticism in the Persian-speaking and Persian-influenced world.
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GOLŠANI ṢĀRUḴĀNI
Tahsin Yazici
a 15th-century Turkish poet who also wrote in Persian.
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GOLŠANĪ, EBRĀHIM
Tahsin Yazici
b. Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim b. Šehāb-al-Din (d. 1534), Sufi poet and the founder of the Golšaniya branch of the Ḵalwati Sufi order.
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GOLŠANI, MOḤYI MOḤAMMAD
Tahsin Yazici
b. Fatḥ-Allāh b. Abi Ṭāleb (1528/29-1606/7), scholar and author in Persian and Turkish and inventor of an artificial language.
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GOLŠEHRI, SOLAYMĀN
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Sufi and poet in Turkish and Persian. See GÜLŠEHRI.
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GOLŠIRI, Hušang
Ḥasan Mirʿābedini and EIr
(b. Isfahan, 1938; d. Tehran, 2000), novelist who explored new literary techniques. He received the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett award (1997) via the Human Rights Watch Organization and was awarded the Osnabrück Peace prize (1999) from the Erich Maria Remarque Foundation for his defense of freedom of speech.
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GOLSORḴI, ḴOSROW
Maziar Behrooz
(1943-1974), poet and revolutionary figure whose defiant stand during his televised show trial, and subsequent execution by firing squad in 1974, enshrined his place in the cultural and political history of modern Persia.
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GŌMAL
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
or Gōmāl: a sub-province (woloswāli) and village in Paktiā province, eastern Afghanistan; a river originating in the Ḡazni province and flowing southeast through the Wazirestān tribal agency and the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan; and a passage linking the eastern foothills of the Solaymān mountain range with the Indus plains.
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GOMBROON
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See BANDAR-e ʿABBĀS(Ī).
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GOMBROON WARES
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GŌMĒZ
Mary Boyce
cow's urine.
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GOMIŠĀN
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a district in Golestān Province. See GORGĀN.