Table of Contents
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ČAHĀR AYMĀQ
Cross-Reference
See AYMĀQ.
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ČAHĀR BĀḠ
Cross-Reference
See ČAHĀRBĀḠ.
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ČAHĀR DOWLĪ
Pierre Oberling
(Davālī), or ČĀR DOWLĪ, a tribe of western Iran.
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ČAHĀR LANG
cross-reference
(ČĀR LANG). See BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE i.
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ČAHĀR MAḤĀ(L) WA BAḴTĪĀRĪ
Eckart Ehlers and Hūšang Kešāvarz
second smallest province (ostān) of Persia in area, located in the Zagros mountains of southwestern Persia.
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ČAHĀR MAQĀLA
Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī
persian prose work written in the 6th/12th century by Abu’l-Ḥasan Neẓām-al-Dīn (or Najm-al-Dīn) Aḥmad b. ʿOmar b. ʿAlī Neẓāmī ʿArūżī Samarqandī, originally entitled Majmaʿ al-nawāder.
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ČAHĀR ONṢOR
Sharif Husain Qasemi
(Four elements), an autobiographical work in prose by the poet and Sufi Abu’l-Maʿānī Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Qāder Bīdel.
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ČAHĀR-BAYTI
Cross-Reference
See DO-BAYTI.
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ČAHĀRBĀḠ
David Stronach
lit. “four gardens,” a rectangular garden divided by paths or waterways into four symmetrical sections.
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ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E EṢFAHĀN
Roger M. Savory
the name of a broad avenue which was a key feature of the city of Isfahan as replanned by Shah ʿAbbās I after he had designated the city the new capital of the Safavid state in 1006/1597-98.