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WHEAT
Cross-Reference
See GANDOM.
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WHITE SHEEP DYNASTY
Cross-Reference
A confederation of Turkman tribes who ruled in eastern Anatolia and western Iran until the Safavid conquest in 1501. See AQ QOYUNLU.
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WIDENGREN, GEO
Anders Hultgård
(b. 24 April 1907; d. 28 January 1996), historian of religions, particularly those of the ancient Near East and Iran.
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WIKANDER, Oscar Stig
Bo Utas; Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Wikander soon became known as a brilliant young scholar with wide interests and a deep knowledge of many fields. In 1935 and 1936, he and Geo Widengren (1907-1996) were among the members of the Avesta seminars, held by his older compatriot, the professor of Semitic languages at Uppsala University, H. S. Nyberg (1889-1974).
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WILD RUE
Cross-Reference
See ESFAND.
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WILD THYME
Cross-Reference
See ĀVĪŠAN.
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WILLIAM OF RUBRUCK
Peter Jackson
a Flemish Franciscan missionary who traveled through the lands that the Mongols had conquered in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asia Minor between 1253 and 1255.
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WILLOW
Cross-Reference
See BĪD.
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WISDOM LITERATURE
Cross-Reference
See ANDARZ, APHORISM, IRAN viii. PERSIAN LITERATURE (1) Pre-Islamic.
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WIZĀRIŠN Ī ČATRANG UD NIHIŠN Ī NĒW-ARDAXŠĪR
Antonio Panaino
a minor Pahlavi text on chess and backgammon.