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• ADĪB NAṬANZĪ

  ʿA. N. Monzawī

  poet and linguist of the 5th/11th century, from Naṭanz, near Isfahan.

• ADĪB NĪŠĀBURĪ

  J. Matīnī

  Persian litterateur and poet (19th century).

• ADĪB PĪŠĀVARĪ

  Munibur Rahman

  poetic name of SAYYED AḤMAD B. ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN RAŻAWĪ (1844-1930).

• ADĪB ṢĀBER

  Ḏ. Ṣafā

  famous poet of the first half of the 6th/12th century. 

• ADĪB ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

  M. Momen

  prominent Iranian Bahaʾi author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

• ADĪB-AL-MAMĀLEK FARĀHĀNĪ

  Munibur Rahman

  poet and journalist (1860-1917).

• ĀDĪNEVAND

  P. Oberling

  a small Lur tribe of Lorestān which lives the year round in the baḵš of Ṭarhān.

• ʿADL, Aḥmad-Ḥosayn

  Bāqer ʿĀqeli

  minister of agriculture, Director General of the Plan Organization, and the first director of the College of Agronomy (1898-1963).

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• ʿADL, MOṢṬAFĀ

  Bāqer ʿĀqeli

  jurist, professor of law, diplomat, minister and senator, known by the title Manṣur-al-Salṭana (1882–1950). 

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• ʿADL-E MOẒAFFAR

  J. Calmard, L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  “Moẓaffar’s justice,” a phrase connected with the events of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) and the name of a newspaper.

• ADLER, ELKAN NATHAN

  Dalia Yasharpour

  avid traveler and collector of Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, and Judeo-Tajik manuscripts from the Jewish Persian and Bukharan communities (1861-1946). In 1921, personal circumstances compelled Adler to sell his manuscript and book collections to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati and the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.

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• ADMINISTRATION in Iran

  Multiple Authors

  This entry covers state administration in Iran in the modern period, from the rise of the Safavids to the fall of the Pahlavis in 1979. 

• ADMINISTRATION vi. Safavid, Zand, and Qajar periods

  S. Bakhash

  The rise of the Safavids was marked by developments that significantly influenced the nature of political, military, and revenue administration.

• ADMINISTRATION vii. Pahlavi period

  R. Sheikholeslami

  The constitution of 1906 and the supplementary laws of 1907 provided the juridical foundation for a legal-rational state within which the legislature was empowered to establish and modify the administration.

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• ʿADNĪ, MAḤMŪD PĀŠĀ

  T. Yazici

  (879/1474), Ottoman vizier and poet, better known in Turkish literature by his pen name ʿAdnī.

• ADRAPANA

  C. J. Brunner

  the third station from the western border of “Upper Media” recorded by Isidore of Charax in the 1st century CE.

• ADRĀVVŪN

  M. F. Kanga

   Gujarati term for the Parsi betrothal ceremony (in Persian nāmzadī). 

• ADUKANAIŠA

  R. Schmitt

  (a-du-u-k-n-i-š-), name of the first month (March-April) of the Old Persian calendar.

• ĀDUR

  M. Boyce

  (and ādar) Middle Persian word for “fire;” the Avestan form is ātar (of unknown derivation), and the late form is arabicized in New Persian as āẕar.

• ĀDUR BURZĒN-MIHR

  M. Boyce

  an Ātaš Bahrām, i.e., a Zoroastrian sacred fire of the highest grade.