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NEW JULFA
Cross-Reference
the Armenian settlement at Isfahan. See JULFA.
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NEY-DĀWUD, Morteżā
Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi
(1900-1990), celebrated composer of music and performer and instructor of the tār (a plucked, long-necked lute).
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NĒZAK
Frantz Grenet
dynastic name appearing on a long series of silver coins issued by a local dynasty in Kāpisā (in the region of Kabul; Sk. Kāpiśī) ca. late 7th century C.E.
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NEẒĀM-AL-MOLK
Neguin Yavari
(1018-92), vizier of two Saljuq sultans, rose from a relatively lowly position in the bureaucracy of the provincial governor of Balḵ (Balkh) to become the de facto ruler over a vast empire, with a final apotheosis as the archetypal good vizier in the world of Islam.
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NEẒĀM-AL-SALṬANA, ḤOSAYNQOLI KHAN
Mansoureh Ettehadieh
(1832-1908), official, governor, and prime minister in the Qajar era.
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NEẒĀMI QUNAVI
Osman G. Özgüdenlı
(Neẓāmi of Konya; d. 1469-73?), poet in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish.
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NEZĀR B. AL-MOSTANṢER, ABU MANṢUR
Farhad Daftary
(1045-1095), Fatimid crown prince and Nezāri Ismaʿili imam. He was the eldest son of al-Mostanṣer Be’llāh, the eighth Fatimid caliph and the eighteenth Ismaʿili imam.
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NEZĀRI QOHESTĀNI
Nadia Eboo Jamal
(1247-1320-21), a Persian poet of Nezāri Ismaʿili affiliation; born in Birjand, a commercial town in Qohestān, southern Khorasan.
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NIĀZI, FĀTEḤ
Keith Hitchins
(1914-1991), Tajik prose writer; began his literary career in the early 1930s as a writer of verse in Uzbek. As a fiction writer Niāzi began with short pieces, which he published in a collection entitled Intiqomi tojik. Niāzi’s reputation as a writer rests on three long novels, the writing of which spanned his entire career. All of them are concerned with the Second World War and are based upon his own experiences.
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NIETZSCHE AND PERSIA
Daryoush Ashouri
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), the great German thinker, is best known as a philosopher of culture.