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NAWBAḴTI FAMILY
Sean W. Anthony
a notable Shiʿite family of Persian descent, many of whose members, like their eponymous ancestor Nawbaḵt and his son Abu Sahl Fażl, ranked among the local illuminati of Baghdad.
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NAWBAḴTI, ḤASAN
David Pingree
b. Musā Abu Moḥammad, 4th/10th century theologian and philosopher in Baghdad, d. between 300/912-3 and 310/922-3.
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NAWʿI
Sunil Sharma
MOḤAMMAD-REŻĀ ḴABUŠĀNI (1563-1610), Persian poet in India, best known for his long maṯnawi, Suz o godāz, a romance centered on a suttee (sati) heroine.
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NAWM-NĀMA
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
the dream journal of Fażl-Allāh Astarābādi (1339-1394), the founder of the Ḥorufi movement.
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NAWWĀB ŠIRĀZI, ʿALI-AKBAR
Manṣur Rastegār Fasāʾi
(1773-1847), a scholar, author, and poet also known by the pen-name Besmel.
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NAXARAR
N. Garsoian
term given to the para-feudal, social pattern that early Armenia apparently shared with Parthian Iran, although it was preserved into the Sasanian period and beyond.
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NĀẒER
Cross-Reference
title of the director of the Safavid royal secretariat. See DAFTAR-ḴĀNA-YE HOMĀYŪN.
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NAẒIRI NIŠĀPURI
Paul Losensky
Indo-Persian poet of the late 16th and early 17th centuries (b. Nishapur, ca. 1560; d. Ahmadabad, between 1612 and 1614).
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NEDĀY-E ESLĀM
Nassereddin Parvin
(The voice of Islam), a pro-constitutional newspaper lithographed and published in Shiraz, 1907.
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NEGAHBAN, EZAT O.
Kamyar Abdi
eminent Iranian archaeologist. Negahban carried out his first series of excavations in 1961 at the site of Mehrānābād about 25 km south of Tehran on the road to Sāveh.
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