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ANJOMAN-E ESMĀʿĪLI
F. Daftary
(Ismaʿili Society), a research institution founded on 16 February 1946 in Bombay, India, under the patronage of the third Aqa Khan.
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ANJOMAN-E EYĀLĀTI-E TABRIZ
Mansoureh Ettehadieh
the provincial council (anjoman) of Tabriz organized during the early phase of the Constitutional Revolution, in 1324/1906.
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ANJOMAN-E FALSAFA WA ʿOLŪM-E ENSĀNĪ
EIr
(Iranian Society for Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences), formed in 1949 as a regional branch of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Sciences, a UNESCO affiliate.
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ANJOMAN-E KALĪMĪĀN
A. Netzer
(JEWISH ASSOCIATION), name given to the Jewish Association of Tehran in the 1930s, and to the Jewish Association of Iran since 1974.
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ANJOMAN-E KETĀB
I. Afshar
(the Book Society of Iran), founded in 1957 in Tehran by Ehsan Yarshater in collaboration with Iraj Afshar (Īraǰ Afšār), ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Zarrīnkūb, and a number of concerned scholars, to foster interest in good publications.
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ANJOMAN-E MAʿĀREF
ʿA. Anwār
(Society or Council of Education), a society founded in Šawwāl, 1315/February-March, 1898 under the patronage of the then prime minister Ḥāǰǰ Mīrzā ʿAlī Khan Amīn-al-dawla in order to promote the cause of Western-type education in Iran.
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ANJOMAN-E OḴOWWAT
ʿA. Anwār and EIr
(or OḴŪWAT) “The Society of Brotherhood,” a non-political Sufi-type society officially founded on 15 Šabʿān 1317/21 December 1899 by Mīrzā ʿAlī Khan Ẓahīr-al-dawla to promote the ideals of equity and brotherhood in Iran.
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ANJOMAN-E SAʿĀDAT
H. Algar
(The Association of Felicity), an organization of Iranians resident in Istanbul, devoted to furthering the cause of the Iranian constitution between 1908 and 1912.
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ANJOMAN-E TABLĪḠĀT-E ESLAMĪ
H. Algar
(The Society of Islamic Propagation), an Islamic cultural and educational society established in 1941 by ʿAṭāʾallāh Šehābpūr.
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ANJOMAN-E TĀRĪḴ-E AFḠĀNESTĀN
R. Farhādī
(Historical Society of Afghanistan), founded in 1942 to disseminate information about the history of Afghanistan by conducting research, promoting scholarship, and publishing scholarly works.