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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.

  • CORMICK, WILLIAM

    Moojan Momen

    (b. Tabrīz 1822, d. Tabrīz 25 Ḏu’l-ḥejja 1294/30 December 1877), a British physician in Tabrīz.

  • CORN

    Cross-Reference

    See ḎORRAT.

  • CORNELIAN CHERRY

    Hūšang Aʿlam

    the male cornel tree, a dogwood shrub with edible berries.

  • CORONATION

    A. Shapur Shahbazi

    in ancient Iran, the ceremonial act of investing a ruler with a crown.

  • 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.

  • CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IRANICARUM

    Nicholas Sims-Williams

    (C.I.I.), an association devoted to the col­lection and publication of Iranian inscriptions and documents.

  • 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.

  • 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!” 

  • 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.