Search Results for “Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province”

• KOROSH i. The Korosh people

  Maryam Nourzaei, Erik Anonby, and Carina Jahani

  Korosh communities are found in villages near large towns and cities, and in the suburbs of these cities, across southwestern Iran. Their traditional livelihood is based on camel and goat husbandry.

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• BEHBAHAN

  Multiple Authors

  a city and sub-province in Khuzestan province.

• KHORRAMABAD

  Multiple Authors

  sub-province and capital city of Lorestan Province.

• BIRJAND

  Multiple Authors

  the capital and a sub-province in Khorasan-e Jonubi Province.

• ASTARA

  Multiple Authors

  a town and sub-province in the province of Ardabil, northern Iran.

• BORUJERD

  Multiple Authors

  town and sub-province in Lorestan Province in western Iran.

• AΘURĀ

  Cross-Reference

  Achaemenid province. See ASSYRIA.

• DEZFUL

  Multiple Authors

  a town and sub-province in northern Khuzestan province.

• ILĀM

  Multiple Author

  a province, sub-province, and town in western Iran.

• GOLESTĀN PROVINCE

  Cross-Reference

  See GORGĀN.

• HORMOZGĀN PROVINCE

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• AḤMAD, NEẒĀM-AL-DIN

  Erika Glassen

  vizier and amir under the Timurids (d. 912/1507).

• Ebādī Aḥmad

  music sample

• LURISTAN

  Multiple Authors

  major province in Iran

• KABUL

  Multiple Authors

  (Kābol), capital of Afghanistan, also the name of its province and a river.

• FĀRS

  Multiple Authors

  province in southern Persia.

• ASFAND

  H. Gaube

  a medieval district (kūra) of the quarter (robʿ) of Nīšāpūr of Khorasan province.

• ĀTAŠ, AḤMAD

  cross-reference

  See  ATEŞ, AHMED.

• KASHAN

  Multiple Authors

  historical city and a sub-province of the province of Isfahan on the north-south axial route of central Iran.

• ḴᵛĀNSĀR

  Multiple Authors

  historical district and town in Isfahan province.

• ASTAUENE

  Cross-Reference

  Parthian province to the north of Hyrcania (Gorgān). See OSTOVĀ.

• ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Ērān, glory of Yazdegerd"; Sasanian province probably created by Yazdegerd II (438-457).

• KARAJ

  Multiple Authors

  a town in Tehran province, located 36 km west of the city of Tehran on the western bank of the Karaj River (lat 35° 46ʹ N, long 50° 49ʹ E; elev., 1,360 m).

• FASĀ

  Multiple Authors

  a sub-province and a city in Fārs.

• AḤMAD-E ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ.

• KAZERUN

  Multiple Authors

  city and sub-province in the province of Fars, west of Shiraz. This entry is divided into the following three sections: i. Geography. ii. History. iii. Old Kazerun dialect.

• ʿALAWĪ, AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.

• GĀNDHĀRĪ LANGUAGE

  Richard Salomon

  The language of ancient Gandhāra, the area around the Peshawar Valley in the modern North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, lying near the border of the Indian and Iranian linguistic areas.

• KERMANSHAH

  Multiple Authors

  a province in western Iran; also the name of its principal city and capital.

• JĀMI

  Multiple Authors

  ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN NUR-AL-DIN b. Neẓām-al-Din Aḥmad-e Dašti, Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi (1414-1492).

• GOMIŠĀN

  Cross-Reference

  a district in Golestān Province. See GORGĀN.

• JIROFT

  Multiple Authors

  sub-province (šahrestān), town, and dam in Kerman Province. i. Geography. ii. Human geography and environment. iii. General survey of excavations. iv. Iconography of chlorite artifacts.

• AḤMAD B. QODĀM

  C. E. Bosworth

  a military adventurer who temporarily held power in Sīstān during the confused years following the collapse of the first Saffarid amirate and the military empire of ʿAmr b. Layṯ in 287/900.

• ĀBĀDĀN

  Multiple Authors

  island and city in the ostān (province) of Ḵūzestān at the head of the Persian Gulf.

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• HAMADĀN

  Multiple Authors

  province, governorship, and city located in the Zagros region of western Persia.

• BOČĀQČĪ

  Pierre Oberling

  a Turkic tribe of Sīrjān in Kermān province.

• AFŠĀR, AḤMAD SOLṬĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD SOLṬĀN.

• GILĀN

  Multiple Authors

  or Ḡelān; province at the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea. 

• ʿABDALLĀH MĪRZĀ DĀRĀ

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  Son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah and governor of Ḵamsa province (1796-1846).

• AḤMAD B. SAHL B. HĀŠEM

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor in Khorasan during the confused struggles for supremacy there between the Saffarids, Samanids, and various military adventures in the late 3rd/9th and early 4th/10th century, d. 307/920. 

• BANDAR-E ʿABBAS(I)

  Multiple Authors

  a port city and capital of Hormozgan province on the Persian Gulf.

• KUHPĀYA

  Multiple Authors

  piedmont district east of Isfahan province, historically known as Vir.

• ʿABDALLĀH B. AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See EBN AL-BAYṬĀR.

• AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. ṬĀHER

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor in Ḵᵛārazm and son of the last Tahirid governor in Khorasan. 

• ABU’L-ḤOSAYN KĀTEB

  C. E. Bosworth

  official of the Buyids and writer in Arabic of the 4th/10th century. 

• BALḴĪ, ABŪ ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD

  cross-reference

  B. AḤMAD. See ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD BALḴĪ.

• FAŻL, b. AḤMAD ESFARĀʾENĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ESFARĀʾENĪ, FAŻL B. AḤMAD.

• GOVĀḴARZ

  Cross-Reference

  a district in the medieval province of Qohestān in Khorasan. See BĀKARZ.

• RĀNEKUH

  Cross-Reference

  old district encompassing eastern Gilān in the 19th century. It became a part of Lāhijān sub-province (šahrestān) in 1937 and was divided between the sub-provinces of Langarud and Rudsar in the 1960s.

• ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀ

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Kawād[has] arranged Ērān"; name of a Sasanian province (šahrestān) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531) in his reorganization of the empire.

• BADĪLĪ, AḤMAD

  H. Algar

  SHAIKH, a Sufi shaikh in 12th-century Sabzavār, renowned for his mastery of the exoteric as well as the esoteric science. 

• ISFAHAN

  Multiple Authors

  ancient province and old city in central Iran. Isfahan city has served as one of the most important urban centers on the Iranian Plateau since ancient times.

• DUNHUANG

  Multiple Authors

  an oasis town situated in the northwest of the Chinese province of Gansu, famous for the nearby Mogao Caves.

• JOWŠAQĀN

  Habib Borjian

  district in Isfahan Province in central Persia, best known for its carpets and for its dialect.

• HERAT

  Multiple Authors

  ancient city and province in northwestern Afghanistan. OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Geography. ii. History, Pre-Islamic Period. iii. History, Medieval Period. iv. Topography and urbanism. v. Local histories. vi. The Herat question. vii. The Herat frontier, 19th and 20th centuries.

• ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD BALḴĪ

  D. Pingree

  post-3rd/9th century astronomer.

• KADAGISTĀN

  Nicholas Sims-Williams

  an eastern province of the Sasanian empire. The clearest evidence for the existence of such a province is provided by a bulla bearing the impression of a seal.

• HALIL RUD

  M. H. Ganji

  river in the Jiroft and Kahnuj districts of Kerman Province in southeastern Iran, which stretches a total length of 390 km.

• JARQUYA

  Habib Borjian

  district located in the eastern region of Isfahan Province. i. The district. ii. The dialect.

• KERMAN

  Multiple Authors

  province of Iran located between Fars and Sistan va Balučestān; also the name of its principal city and capital.

• ḤASANLU TEPPE

  Robert H. Dyson, Jr

  archeological site in West Azerbaijan Province in northwest Persia, a short distance southwest of Lake Urmia (former Reżāʾiya). OVERVIEW of the entry: i. The site. ii. The golden bowl.

• ABŪ JAʿFAR B. AḤMAD

  D. Pingree

  mid- to late 3rd/9th century astronomer, son of a famous astronomer from Marv.

• BALḴĪ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABD-ALLĀH AḤMAD

  cross-reference

  B. AḤMAD. See ABU’L-QĀSEM KAʿBĪ.

• KHARG ISLAND

  Multiple Authors

  an island and a district of Bušehr Province in the Persian Gulf.

• AḤMAD TŪNĪ

  J. van Ess

  Karrāmī theologian who lived about 400/1010.  

• AḤMAD SHAH DORRĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See AFGHANISTAN X. POLITICAL HISTORY.

• ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Ērān, glory of Šāpūr"; Sasanian province (šahrestān) containing Susa and probably created by Šāpūr II (r. 309-379).

• HUART, CLÉMENT

  Jean Calmard

  French orientalist (1854-1926), especially known as editor and translator of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish sources and prolific author of works covering many aspects of Oriental studies.

• ĀB-E ĪSTĀDA

  C. E. Bosworth

  “Still water,” a salt lake in the province of Ḡazna in modern Afghanistan, lying 30 km southeast of the present Ḡazna-Kandahār highway and 100 km south of Ḡazna itself.

• AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  (r. 311-52/923-63), amir in Sīstān of the Saffarid dynasty (that part of it sometimes called “the second Saffarid dynasty”).

• BĒṮ ĀRAMAYĒ

  Michael Morony

  lit. “land of the Arameans,” the region and Sasanian province of Āsōristān in Iraq between the Jabal Ḥamrīn and Maysān.

• BARQĀNĪ, ABŪ BAKR AḤMAD

  H. Schützinger

  B. MOḤAMMAD B. AḤMAD B. ḠĀLEB (948-1034), a traditionist (moḥaddeṯ), philologist, and lawyer of the Shafeʿite school.

• KANDAHAR

  Multiple Authors

  the second most important city in the country and the capital of Kandahar province. This entry is divided into seven parts: i. Historical geography to 1979.  ii. Pre-Islamic monuments and remains. iii. Early Islamic period.  iv. From the Mongol invasion through the Safavid era.  v. In the 19th century.  vi. 20th century, 1901-73.  vii. From 1973 to the present.

• ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Kawād [has] made Ērān peaceful"; name of a Sasanian province (šahr) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531).

• AHVĀZ

  Multiple Authors

  city of southwestern Iran, located in the province of Ḵūzestān on the Kārun river.

• FAHRAJ

  Rezazadeh Langarudi

  subdistrict (dehestān) and town in the Persian province of Yazd.

• BĀJARVĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  a town in the medieval Islamic province of Mūḡān, the area southwest of the Caspian Sea and south of the Kor (Kura) and Aras (Araxes) rivers.

• AḤMAD B. ASAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  (d. 250/864), early member of the Samanid family and governor of Farḡāna under the ʿAbbasids and Taherids.

• HAŠTRUD

  Z. Sadrolashrafi

  a sub-province (šahrestān) in the south of Azerbaijan, situated between lat 36°45’ and 37°24’ N,  long 46°25’ and 47°24’ E, some 134 km from Tabriz and 101 km from Miāna Sub-province.

• CHARAX

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  town in the Seleucid and Parthian province of Rhagiana, the area around modern Ray.

• KASRAVI, AḤMAD iv. AS LINGUIST

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• AḤMAD NEHĀVANDĪ

  D. Pingree

  2nd/8th century ʿAbbasid astronomer.  

• DORRĀNĪ, AḤMAD SHAH

  Cross-Reference

  See AFGHANISTAN x.

• ABŪ AḤMAD B. ABĪ BAKR KĀTEB

  C. E. Bosworth

  poet and official of the Samanids, fl. first half of the 4th/10th century.

• ABŪ NAṢR AḤMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  Samanid amir in Transoxania and Khorasan (295-301/907-14).

• ḤABLARUD

  M. H. Ganji

  river in Damāvand and Garmsār districts of Semnān province in northern Persia.

• EṢFAHĀNĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤASAN

  David Pingree

  b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan, author of the Ketāb al-bolhān on astrology, magic, divination, and demonology, which he composed around 1400 for Ḥosayn b. Aḥmad b. Moḥammad Erbelī.

• Isfahan xiv. MODERN ECONOMY AND INDUSTRIES

  Habib Borjian

  This sub-section is divided into the following parts: (1) Modern Economy of the Province; (2) Industries of Isfahan City.

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• ĀŠTĪĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  the name both of an administrative subdistrict (dehestān) and its chef-lieu in the First Province (ostān).

• DARVĪŠ AḤMAD QĀBEŻ

  M. E. Subtelny

  (d. 1507), Timurid vizier.

• DŪNQEŠLĀQ

  Klaus Fischer

  or Dong Qešlaq; group of pre-Islamic and Islamic archeological sites on the Emām Ṣāḥeb plain in the Qondūz province of Afghanistan, about 10 km south of the Oxus.

• CH’ÜAN-CHOU

  Cross-reference

  (Quan-zhou, formerly Jin-jiang; in Islamic sources Zaytūn), Chinese city in southeastern Fu-jian (Fukien) province on the lower reaches of the Jin-jiang river. See CHINA VIII. PERSIAN SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA.

• ARMENIA and IRAN i. Armina, Achaemenid province

  R. Schmitt

  a province (satrapy) of the Achaemenid empire; the inhabitants are called Arminiya- “Armenian.” 

• ARḠANDĀB

  D. Balland

  the name of two non-contiguous administrative districts (woloswālī) in Afghanistan.

• JANNĀBA

  Cross-Reference

  term used by early Muslim geographers to refer to the county (šahrestān) and port city on the Persian Gulf in the province of Būšehr. See GANĀVA.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD B. ŠĀḎĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor (ʿamīd) of Balḵ and northern Afghanistan under the Saljuq ruler of Khorasan, Čaḡrī Beg Dāʾūd, and then under his son, Alp Arslan.

• GORGĀNI, ABU’L-HAYṮAM AḤMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ABU’L-HAYṮAM GORGĀNI.

• EBN ŠĀḎĀN, ABŪ ʿALĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD.

• BAḴTAGĀN LAKE

  E. Ehlers

  part of the Lake Nīrīz basin situated about 1,525 m above sea level in the province of Fārs, approximately 50 km east of Shiraz.  At present, it is common to divide the basin of the Nīrīz into a northern portion (daryāča-ye Ṭašk) and a larger southern part (daryāča-ye Baḵtagān).

• EŠKĀŠ(E)M

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a settlement in medieval Badaḵšān in northeastern Afghanistan, now in the modern Afghan province of Eškāšem.