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ČAḠANĪ, ṬĀHER
Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī
b. Abi’l-ʿAbbās Fażl b. Abī Bakr Moḥammad b. Abī Saʿd Moẓaffar b. Moḥtāj, prince and poet of the ancient Iranian Āl-e Moḥtāj, ruler of Čaḡānīān (Čaḡān Ḵodāt).
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ČAḠĀNĪĀN
C. Edmund Bosworth
Middle Pers. form Čagīnīgān, Arabic rendering Ṣaḡānīān, with the common rendering of Iranian č as ṣ.
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ČAḠĀNĪĀN, Chaghanids
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E MOḤTĀJ.
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ČAḠĀNRŪD
C. Edmund Bosworth
Čaḡānīrūd in Farroḵī, the seventh and last right-bank tributary of the Oxus or Amu Darya.
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ČAḠATĀY
Cross-Reference
See CHAGHATAY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE and CHAGHATAYID DYNASTY.
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ČAḠČARĀN
Daniel Balland
Principal town and administrative capital of the province of Ḡōr, in the mountains of central Afghanistan.
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ČAḠRĪ BEG DĀWŪD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Mīḵāʾīl b. Saljūq, Abū Solaymān, a member of the Saljuqs, the leading family of the Oghuz Turks, who with his brother Ṭoḡrel (Ṭoḡrïl) Beg founded the Great Saljuq dynasty in Persia in the 5th/11th century.
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ČAḠRĪ KHAN ʿALĪ
Cross-reference
See ILAK-KHANIDS.
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ČĀH
Marcel Bazin
“well”; together with qanāt (subterranean water canals), wells play a great part in the mobilization of the groundwater resources of Persia.
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ČĀH-BAHĀR
Eckart Ehlers
Name of a town and bay on the Makrān coast of Persian Baluchistan facing the coast of Oman.