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CORMICK, JOHN
Kamran Ekbal and Lutz Richter-Bernburg
one of the first English surgeons to work in Persia and personal physician to the crown prince ʿAbbās Mīrzā.
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CORMICK, WILLIAM
Moojan Momen
(b. Tabrīz 1822, d. Tabrīz 25 Ḏu’l-ḥejja 1294/30 December 1877), a British physician in Tabrīz.
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CORN
Cross-Reference
See ḎORRAT.
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CORNELIAN CHERRY
Hūšang Aʿlam
the male cornel tree, a dogwood shrub with edible berries.
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CORONATION
A. Shapur Shahbazi
in ancient Iran, the ceremonial act of investing a ruler with a crown.
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CORPSE
Mary Boyce
disposal of, in Zoroastrianism; in Zoroastrianism the corpse of a righteous believer was held to be the greatest source of pollution in the world, as the death of such a one represented a triumph for evil, whose forces were thought to be gathered there in strength.
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CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IRANICARUM
Nicholas Sims-Williams
(C.I.I.), an association devoted to the collection and publication of Iranian inscriptions and documents.
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CORRESPONDENCE
Multiple Authors
Correspondence i. In pre-Islamic Persia, ii. In Islamic Persia, iii. Forms of opening and closing, address, and signature, and iv. On the subcontinent of India.
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CORRESPONDENCE i. In pre-Islamic Persia
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
There is no information about correspondence in Median times, except for a fictitiously paraphrased letter from Cyrus to Cyaxares that began “Cyrus to Cyaxares, greeting!”
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CORRESPONDENCE ii. In Islamic Persia
Fatḥ-Allāh Mojtabāʾī
In Islamic Persia letter writing (Ar.-Pers. tarassol < Ar. r-s-l “to send”) developed into a genre of great literary, historical, and social importance.