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OPIUM
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See AFYŪN.
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OPTICS
Elaheh Kheirandish
The science of “aspects” or “appearances” (ʿelm al-manāẓer), as optics was called in the Islamic Middle Ages, has a long and impressive history in both Arabic and Persian.
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ORAHAM, ALEXANDER JOSEPH
Eden Naby
(1898-1953), physician and lexicographer, born in the village of Armudāḡāj of the Urmia District, Azerbaijan. He emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago. He is known for the widely used Assyrian-English Oraham’s Dictionary.
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ORANSKIĬ, IOSIF MIKHAILOVICH
Ivan Steblin-Kamensky
It is difficult to name a field of Iranian studies which was not included in Oranskii's studies: history of Iranian studies, history of the teaching of Persian and other Iranian languages, the study of the languages themselves, the development of their grammatical structure, etymology, language contacts, dialectology, ethnology, etc.
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ORBELI, IOSEF ABGAROVICH
Karen Yuzbashian
(1887-1961), orientalist and academician who specialized in Iranian studies, Armenian and Kurdish philology, and archeology.
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ORDUBĀD
C. Edmund Bosworth
a town on the north bank of the middle course of the Araxes (Aras) river of eastern Transcaucasia, former in Persian territory but now in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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ʿORFI ŠIRAZI
Paul Losensky
Persian poet of the latter half of the 16th century (b. Shiraz, 1555; d. Lahore, Aug. 1591).
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ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Kamyar Abdi
a major research center devoted to the study of the history, languages, and archeology of the ancient Near East, and Egypt.
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ORMURI
Ch. M. Kieffer and EIr.
language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the Ormur or Baraki.
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OROITES
C. J. Brunner
satrap of Lydia, Phrygia, and Ionia during the reigns of the Achaemenid kings Cyrus II and Cambyses.