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  • QĀSEMI-e ḤOSAYNI-e GONĀBĀDI

    Jaʿfar Šojāʿ Keyhāni

    poet and scholar of the Safavid period.

  • QĀSEMLU, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN

    Carol Prunhuber

    Qāsemlu became interested in politics in the early 1940s, when the Allied forces invaded Iran and the nascent Kurdish nationalist movement was revived during the occupation of the two Azerbaijan provinces by the Soviet forces.

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  • QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY i. HISTORY

    Pierre Oberling

    Like most present-day tribal confederacies in Persia, the Il-e Qašqā ʾi is a conglomeration of clans of different ethnic origins, Lori, Kurdish, Arab and Turkic.

  • QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY ii. LANGUAGE

    Michael Knüppel

    Qašqāʾi is a language of southwestern or Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, spoken in the Iranian provinces of Hamadan and Fārs, especially in the region to the north of Shiraz.

  • QAṢRĀN

    Giti Deyhim and EIr.

    a historical region located north of present-day Tehran.

  • QAWĀMI, Ḥosyan

    Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr

    (1909-1989), known also as Fāḵtaʾi, a master vocalist in the second half of the 20th century.

  • QAWL

    Philip G. Kreyenbroek

    a type of poetry that plays a central role in the religious life of the Yezidis. These hymns are chanted to music on solemn religious occasions.

  • QAYDĀFA

    Julia Rubanovich

    a female character in various Islamic versions of the Alexander Romance.

  • QĀŻI SAʿID QOMI

    Sajjad H. Rizvi

    (1640-1696), Moḥammad-Saʿid b. Moḥammad-Mofid, Shiʿite philosopher, jurist, and mystic of the Safavid period.

  • QAZI, Mohammad

    Noṣrat-Allāh Żiāʾi

    (1913-1998), noted translator.

  • QAZVINI, MOḤAMMAD

    Mahmoud Omidsalar

    (1877-1949), distinguished scholar of Persian history and literature.

  • QEPČĀQ

    Peter B. Golden

    a loosely-held union of Turkic tribes (ca. 1030-1237) deriving from the Kimek state and tribes, who came into western and central Eurasian steppes from the east.

  • QESHM ISLAND

    Daniel T. Potts

    (Jazira-ye Qešm, Ar. Jazira-al-Ṭawila); the largest island (ca. 122 km long, 18 km wide on average, 1,445 sq km) in the Persian Gulf, about 22 km south of Bandar-e ʿAbbās.

  • QEṢṢA-YE SANJĀN

    Cross-Reference

    an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers on the Indian subcontinent. See PARSI COMMUNITIES i. Early History.

  • QODDUS

    Nosrat Mohammad-Hosseini

    (1822-1849), spiritual title of Moḥammad-ʿAli Bārforuši, a prominent Bābi figure.

  • QODSI MAŠHADI

    Paul Losensky

    (ca. 1582-1646), ḤĀJI MOḤAMMAD JĀN, Persian poet of the first half of the 17th century, was born in Mashad and died in Lahore.

  • QOFṢ

    C. E. Bosworth

    the Arabised form of Kufiči, lit. “mountain dweller,” the name of a people of southeastern Iran found in the Islamic historians and geographers of the 10th-11th centuries.

  • QOHESTĀNI, ABU ESḤĀQ

    Farhad Daftary

    Ebrāhim, one of the most prominent Nezāri Ismaʿili dāʿis and authors of the early Anjedān period around the middle of the 15th century in Nezāri history. His sole surviving work is the Haft bāb.

  • Qohrud i. Historical Geography

    Habib Borjian

    mountainous river, village, and district, with attractive architectural monuments; on a caravan station from Kashan to Isfahan.

  • QOM i. History to the Safavid Period

    Andreas Drechsler

    The present town of Qom in Central Iran dates back to ancient times. Its pre-Islamic history can be partially documented.