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PLANETS
Antonio Panaino
In antiquity, only five planets, visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) were known; in many early traditions, the Sun and the Moon, were added to their number. Hence, some sources mention both the “five” and the “seven” planets.
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PLANTAIN
Cross-Reference
See BĀRHANG.
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PLATTS, JOHN THOMPSON
Parvin Loloi
(1830-1904), scholar and teacher of Persian at the University of Oxford. He wrote a widely used Persian grammar and published an edition and an English translation of Saʿdi’s Golestān.
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PLUM
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See ĀLŪČA.
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POLAK, Jakob Eduard
Christoph Werner
(1818-1891), Austrian physician and writer who was instrumental in establishing modern medicine in Iran.
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POLAND ii. PERSIAN ART AND ARTIFACTS IN POLISH COLLECTIONS
Beata Biedrońska-Słota, Dorota Malarczyk, and Barbara Mękarska
Persian art has been present in Poland since medieval times. Among the objects—bought or brought back as war booty, like carpets, textiles, tents, richly ornamented weaponry, gold products—illuminated Persian manuscripts were also to be found.
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POLAND iii. Iranian Studies in Poland
Anna Krasnowolska
The development of Iranian studies in Poland was preceded by some nonscholarly interest in Persian language and culture.
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POLEMICS i. BETWEEN SHIʿITES AND JEWS
Daniel Tsadik
Twelver (Eṯnā ʿAšari Emāmi) Shiʿite polemics refer here to arguments gleaned from compositions written by Shiʿites.
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POLL TAX
Cross-Reference
See JEZYA.
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POLO, MARCO
Michele Bernardini
(1254-1324), Venetian merchant and traveler (b. Venice or Curzola, 1254; d. Venice, 8 January 1324), whose travel accounts gained worldwide fame and whose description of the countries he visited between 1271 and 1298 represents a primary geographical and historical source concerning Asia during the Mongol domination.