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EASTWICK, EDWARD BACKHOUSE
Parvin Loloi
(1814–1883), orientalist and diplomat, best known for his translations from Persian and Indian languages.
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ʿEBĀDĪ, AḤMAD
Jean During
(1906-1993), one of the outstanding modern masters of Persian music. He played a leading role in popularizing the setār; the appeal of his performance resulted partly from the development of a new style involving slight technical and acoustical modifications to the instrument.
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EBĀḤĪYA
Hamid Algar
or EBĀḤATĪYA; a polemical term denoting either antinomianism or groups and individuals accused thereof.
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EBER-NĀRI
Muhammad A. Dandamayev
the Akkadian name used in Assyrian and Babylonian records of the 8th-5th centuries B.C.E. for the lands to the west of the Euphrates—i.e., Phoenicia, Syria, and Palestine.
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EBERMAN, VASILIĬ ALEKSANDROVICH
Anas B. Khalidov
(b. St. Petersburg, 1899, d. Orel, 1937), scholar of early Persian poets writing in Arabic.
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EBIR NĀRĪ
Cross-Reference
See EBER-NĀRI.
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EBLĀḠ
Nassereddin Parvin
lit. “communication”; title of five Persian language newspapers.
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EBLĪS
Hamid Algar
a Koranic designation for the devil in Persian Sufi Tradition, derived ultimately from the Greek diabolos.
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EBN ʿABBĀD
Cross-Reference
See ṢĀḤEB B. ʿABBĀD.
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EBN ABHAR, MOḤAMMAD-TAQĪ
Stephen Lambden
(1854-1919), Bahai teacher and one of the “hands of the cause."