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ḠANI (article 2)
Prashant Keshavmurthy
Pen name of Mollā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER KAŠMĪRĪ (1630-69). He practiced the “Speaking Anew” (tāza-guʾyi) stylistics of the ḡazal that had arisen across the Persian world in the early 1500s.
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ḠANĪ, QĀSEM
Abbas Milani
Qasem Gani was a prolific writer and, during his many years abroad, corresponded with several eminent figures of the time. His diaries, notebooks, and letters have been compiled and edited in twelve volumes under the general supervision of his son, Cyrus Ghani.
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ḠANĪMAT KONJĀHĪ
Arif Naushahi
Persian poet from the Indian subcontinent, famous for composing Nīrang-e ʿešq (d. ca 1713).
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ḠANĪZĀDA, MAḤMŪD
Hassan Javadi
b. Mīrzā Ḡanī Dīlmaqānī, liberal journalist, historian, and poet (1879-1936).
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GANJ-ʿALĪ KHAN
Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
a military leader and governor of Kermān, Sīstān, and Qandahār under Shah ʿAbbās I (996-1038/1588-1629).
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GANJ-E ARŠADĪ
S. H. Askari
An Indo-Persian collection of sayings (malfūẓāt) of the Češtī saint of Jaunpour Aršad Badr-al-Ḥaqq (1047-1113/1637-1701).
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GANJ-E BĀDĀVARD
Mahmoud Omidsalar
(the treasure brought by the wind), name of one of the eight treasures of the Sasanian Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 591-628 C.E.) according to most Persian sources.
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GANJ-E ŠAKAR, Farid-al-Din Masʿud
Gerhard Böwering
Popularly known as Bābā Farid, a major Shaikh of the Češtīya mystic order, born in the last quarter of the 6th/12th century in Kahtwāl near Moltān, Punjab.
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GANJ-E ŠĀYAGĀN
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GANJ-NĀMA
Stuart C. Brown
(lit. treasure book), location in a pass at an altitude of about 2,000 m across the Alvand Kūh leading westward to Tūyserkān, 12 km southwest of Hamadān.