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• IBEX, PERSIAN

  Eskandar Firouz, D. T. Potts

  Capra aegagrus, also called Persian Wild Goat, in Persian pāzan. It is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic goat. Formerly it was numerous, found in almost all of Persia’s mountainous areas with rugged cliffs.

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• ʿID-E FEṬR

  cross-reference

  See FASTING.

• ʿID-E ḠADIR

  cross-reference

  See ḠADĪR ḴOMM.

• ʿID-E MEHREGĀN

  cross-reference

  See MEHREGĀN.

• ʿID-E NIMA-YE ŠAʿBĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See Islam In Iran vii.

• ʿID-E NOWRUZ

  cross-reference

  See NOWRUZ.

• ʿID-E QORBĀN

  cross-reference

  See PILGRIMAGE, forthcoming online.

• IDA

  Inna N. Medvedskaya

  a land and a city, part of Inner Zamua, located in the area of the southwest shore of Lake Urmia, mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources dating to the 9th century BCE.

• IḎEH

  Kaveh Ehsani

  town and county in northeast Khuzestan Province. Iḏa is located 20 km east of the Kārun River, in a small oval shaped valley, flanked by part of the Zagros range.

• IDEOGRAPHIC WRITING

  N. Sims-Williams, D. Testen

  the representation of language by means of “ideograms,” that is, symbols representing “ideas,” rather than (or usually side by side with) symbols which represent sounds. i. Terminology and conventions. ii. Ideographic writing in the Ancient Near East.