Table of Contents

  • ČAHĀR AYMĀQ

    Cross-Reference

    See AYMĀQ.

  • ČAHĀR BĀḠ

    Cross-Reference

    See ČAHĀRBĀḠ.

  • ČAHĀR DOWLĪ

    Pierre Oberling

    (Davālī), or ČĀR DOWLĪ, a tribe of western Iran.

  • ČAHĀR LANG

    cross-reference

    (ČĀR LANG). See BAḴTĪĀRĪ TRIBE i.

  • ČAHĀR MAḤĀ(L) WA BAḴTĪĀRĪ

    Eckart Ehlers and Hūšang Kešāvarz

    second smallest province (ostān) of Persia in area, located in the Zagros mountains of southwestern Persia.

  • ČAHĀR MAQĀLA

    Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī

    persian prose work written in the 6th/12th century by Abu’l-Ḥasan Neẓām-al-­Dīn (or Najm-al-Dīn) Aḥmad b. ʿOmar b. ʿAlī Neẓāmī ʿArūżī Samarqandī, originally entitled Majmaʿ al-nawāder.

  • ČAHĀR ONṢOR

    Sharif Husain Qasemi

    (Four elements), an autobiographical work in prose by the poet and Sufi Abu’l-Maʿānī Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Qāder Bīdel.

  • ČAHĀR-BAYTI

    Cross-Reference

    See DO-BAYTI.

  • ČAHĀRBĀḠ

    David Stronach

    lit. “four gardens,” a rectangular garden divided by paths or waterways into four symmetrical sections.

  • ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E EṢFAHĀN

    Roger M. Savory

    the name of a broad avenue which was a key feature of the city of Isfahan as replanned by Shah ʿAbbās I after he had designated the city the new capital of the Safavid state in 1006/1597-98.