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PHILOSOPHY
Cross-Reference
see under FALSAFA.
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PHOENIX MOSQUE
George Lane
Over the centuries, the mosque has been mentioned by a variety of very different names. It is referred to as the Li Bai Ssŭ on some steles and as Wu-lin Gardens on a 13th-century street map. The name Li Bai Temple is thought to be the oldest designation.
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PHRAORTES
I. Medvedskaya
the second king of the Median dynasty. All information about him is from Herodotus.
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PHRATAPHERNES
Ernst Badian
a member of the highest Persian aristocracy at the end of the Achaemenid period. He probably belonged to one of the Six Families that had helped Darius I gain the throne.
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PIANO IN PERSIAN MUSIC
Hormoz Farhat
The first piano is known to have arrived in Persia as a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte to Fatḥ ʿAli Shah.
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PILARAM, FARAMARZ
Hengameh Fouladvand
(1937-1983), a modernist artist, educator and among the founders of the Saqqā-ḵāna School of Art.
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PIR-E ZAN
Anna Krasnowolska
a calendar-related legend about an Old Woman who personifies winter.
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PIŠ-PARDA
William O. Beeman
a short comedy sketch, musical number, or dance performed before the main theatrical performance, or in an intermission between acts of a performance.
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PÎREMÊRD
Keith Hitchins
(1867-1950), pen-name of Tawfiq, son of Maḥmud, son of Ḥamza (in Kurdish: Tewfîq kurî MehmûdʿAḡa kurî Hemze ʿAḡa), Kurdish writer, journalist, and public intellectual.
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PLANE TREE
Cross-Reference
See ČENĀR.