Table of Contents
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KAHAK
Farhad Daftary
Markazi Province, a village located about 35 km northeast of Anjedān and northwest of Maḥallāt in central Iran, with ruins of a fairly large caravanserai.
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KĀHI KĀBOLI
Majdoddin Keyvani
(d. 1580), poet at the courts of the Mughal sultans Homāyun and Akbar.
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KAIFENG
Donald D. Leslie
medieval capital of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) and home of a Judeo-Persian community.
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KAJAKAY DAM
Siddieq Noorzoy
dam built on the Helmand River as a part of the multi-faceted projects aimed at the development of the Helmand Valley.
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KĀK
Etrat Elahi and Eir.
a general term applied to several kinds of flat bread or small, often thin, dry cakes variously shaped and made.
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KĀKAGI
Arley Loewen
the customs and characteristics of a kāka—a vagabond or vigilante characterized by the ideals of chivalry, courage, generosity, and loyalty.
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KĀKĀʾI
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
a term used both for a tribal federation and for a religious group in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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KĀKĀVAND
Pierre Oberling
a Lor tribe of the Delfān group, settled in the Piškuh region of Luristan (Lorestān), as well as west of Qazvin and in the Ṭārom region.
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ḴĀKI ḴORĀSĀNI, EMĀMQOLI
S. J. Badakhchani
Ismaʿili poet and preacher of 17th-century Persia (d. after 1646). He was born in Dizbād, a village in the hills half way between Mashhad and Nišāpur.
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ḴĀKI ŠIRĀZI, ḤASAN BEG
Kioumars Ghereghlou
(d. 1612), Persian historian and bureaucrat, whose chronicle, titled Aḥsan al-tavāriḵ, is a general history of pre-Islamic and Islamic dynasties of Iran, the Indian Subcontinent, and Central Asia.