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  • ḠAZĀLĪ, ABŪ ḤĀMED MOḤAMMAD, vii, viii

    Wilferd Madelung

    vii. Ḡazālī and the Bāṭenīs, viii. Impact on Islamic thought.

  • ḠAZĀLĪ, MAJD-AL-DĪN Abu’l-Fotūḥ AḤMAD

    Nasrollah Pourjavady

    b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad (ca. 1061-1126), outstanding mystic, writer, and eloquent preacher.

  • ḠĀZĀN KHAN, MAḤMŪD

    R. Amitai-Preiss

    (1271-1304), oldest son of Arḡūn Khan and his eventual successor as the seventh Il-khanid ruler of Persia (r. 1295-1304).

  • ḠĀZĀN-NĀMA

    Charles Melville

    a verse chronicle of the reign of the Il-khan Ḡāzān Khan (1295-1304), by Ḵᵛāja Nūr-al-Dīn b. Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Aždarī.

  • ḠAŻĀYERĪ RĀZĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ḠAŻĀʾERĪ RĀZĪ.

  • GAŽDAHAM

    Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

    an Iranian hero of Dež-e Safīd, a fortress near the border seperating Iran from Tūrān, during the reigns of the Kayanid kings Nōḏar and Kay Kāvūs.

  • GAZELLE

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀHŪ, CHINKARA.

  • GAZĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ISFAHAN xxii.

  • GAZMA

    Cross-Reference

    See CITIES.

  • ḠAZNAVĪ, ABŪ RAJĀʾ

    EIr

    b. Masʿūd III, a poet at the court of the Ghaznavid sultan Bahrāmšāh (r. ca. 1117-1157).

  • ḠAZNĪ

    Xavier de Planhol, Roberta Giunta

    or Ḡazna, Ḡaznīn; province and city in southeastern Afghanistan. The earliest known monuments of Ḡaznī belong to the Ghaznavid period (366-583/977-1187), the best representative of which are the two minarets standing east of the citadel, close to two large mounds resembling mosques.

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  • GAZOPHYLACIUM LINGUAE PERSICAE

    Cross-Reference

    See DICTIONARIES iii.

  • GĀZORGĀH

    Lisa Golombek

    a village approximately 2.5 miles northeast of the city of Herat in present-day northwestern Afghanistan at 34°22′ N and 62°14′ E, situated at an elevation of 4,100 feet.

  • GĀZORGĀHĪ, MĪR KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN

    Shiro Ando

    b. Šeḥāb-al-Dīn Esmāʿīl Ṭabasī (b. 1469/70), a Timurid ṣadr and author of a collection of biographies of Sufis known as the Majāles al-ʿoššāq.

  • GEBER

    Cross-Reference

    See GABR, MAJŪS.

  • GEDROSIA

    Willem J. Vogelsang

    or Kedrosia; a place-name known only from Classical sources.

  • GEIGER, BERNHARD

    RÜDIGER SCHMITT

    Geiger studied Hebrew and Arabic before being persuaded by Leopold von Schroeder to turn to Indian and Iranian studies. Among his teachers in Vienna, Bonn, Prague, Göttingen, and Heidelberg were the Indologists Leopold von Schroeder, Moriz Winternitz, and Franz Kielhorn and the Iranists Friedrich Carl Andreas (q.v.) and Jacob Wackernagel.

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  • GEIGER, WILHELM

    Bernfried Schlerath

    Geiger’s first publication (1877) was an edited version and annotated translation of the Pahlavi version of the first chapter of the Vidēvdād, the first part of which was his doctoral thesis. Later in 1880 he published a translation with commentary of the third chapter.

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  • GĒL

    Cross-Reference

    tribes in the Arsacid and Sasanian periods. See GĪLĀN.

  • GELDNER, KARL FRIEDRICH

    Bernfried Schlerath

    Geldner’s first significant work appeared in 1874 while he was still a student, in the form of an answer to a prize essay question posed by the Philosophical Faculty at Tübingen. The essay was expanded and published in 1877 under the title Über die Metrik des jüngeren Avesta.

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