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• RABʿ-E RAŠIDI

  Sheila S. Blair

  the charitable foundation (abwāb al-berr) established by the physician, vizier, and historian Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh in an eastern suburb of Tabriz.

• RABATAK INSCRIPTION

  Cross-Reference

  in the Bactrian language. See KUSHAN DYNASTY ii. Inscriptions of the Kushans.

• RABBAN ŠĀPUR

  Florence Jullien

  East Syrian monk (7th century CE);  the monastery he founded in Ḵuzestān, in the mountains of Šuštar, exercised noteworthy influence on monastic practice in the Persian Gulf area and Fārs, as well as Beth Huzāye, during the 7th century.

• RĀBET, ʿABD-AL-AḤAD

  Mohammad Baqir

  19th-century Indian author of Persian works (d. 1268/1851-52).

• RAʿD

  Nasreddin Parvin

  (Thunder), the name of a newspaper published by Sayyed Żiyāʾ-al-Din Ṭabāṭabāʾi in Tehran, 1913-1921, with interruptions.

• RAʿDI AZARAKHSHI, Gholam-ʿAli

  Kāmyār ʿĀbedi

  (1909-1999), prominent poet.

• RADI, AKBAR

  Farindokht Zahedi

  (1939-2007) dramatist, short story writer, university lecturer, and an influential figure in popularizing theatre as an art in modern Iran, whose incorporation of colloquial Persian in his works, has contributed to the preservation of the dialects of the northern provinces.

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• RAFʿAT (REFʿAT)

  Gregory Maxwell Bruce

  (d. 1819), pen name of ḠOLĀM JILĀNI, scholar of Arabic and Persian literature, teacher at Rampur, and author of Dorr-e manẓum.

• RĀḠEB EṢFAHĀNI

  Geert Jan van Gelder

  (d. early 5th/11th cent.), scholar, littérateur, and author of works on Islamic ethics, Qurʾanic exegesis, Islamic theology, and Arabic philology, as well as anthologies.

• RAHAVARD

  Ḡafur Mirzāʾi

  one of the first Persian periodicals published by the Iranian community in the United States after the Iranian revolution of 1979.