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• CHRONICLE OF ARBELA

  Peter Kawerau

  a Syriac church history of Adiabene, written in the 6th century by Mĕšīḥā-Zĕḵā under the title Kĕtaḇā ḏ-ĕqlisyastīqī ḏă-Mĕšīḥā-Zĕḵā, chosen in conscious imitation of the Ekklēsiastikḕ historía by Eusebius of Caesarea.

• CHRONICLE OF EDESSA

  Sebastian P. Brock

  a short local history of Edessa (modern Urfa), written in Syriac by an anonymous author and covering chiefly the period from 201-540 C.E.

• CHRONOGRAMS

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  dates incorporated into Persian texts in disguised form, espe­cially those in which the letters of the alphabet have numerical value.

• CHRONOLOGY

  Cross-Reference

  See CALENDARS.

• CHUBAK, Sadeq

  Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar

  (1916-1998), one of most acclaimed Persian short story writers and novelists of the 20th century.

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• CHUPANIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See CHOBANIDS.

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN PERSIA

  Cross-reference

  IN PERSIA. See ENGLAND, CHURCH OF, IN PERSIA.

• CHURNS AND CHURNING

  Marcel Bazin and Christian Bromberger

  de­vices and associated techniques for processing milk into butter.

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• CH’IEN HAN SHU

  Edwin G. Pulleyblank

  (Qian Han shu) “History of the Former Han Dynasty,” a historical work which includes information on Iran.

• CH’ÜAN-CHOU

  Cross-reference

  (Quan-zhou, formerly Jin-jiang; in Islamic sources Zaytūn), Chinese city in southeastern Fu-jian (Fukien) province on the lower reaches of the Jin-jiang river. See CHINA VIII. PERSIAN SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA.

• CIA

  Cross-Reference

  See CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) IN PERSIA.

• ČIÇANTAXMA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  an Iranian personal name signifying “brave in lineage.”

• CICAST

  Cross-Reference

  See ČĒČAST.

• CICERO

  Michael Weiskopf

  as a source for Parthian history; letters written by Roman statesman and political philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 b.c.e.) preserve a virtually unique con­temporary extra-Iranian source on Parthian military and diplomatic activities and the Roman response to them, particularly during the military-campaign season of 51­-50 b.c.e.

• ČĪDAG ANDARZ Ī PŌRYŌTKĒŠĀN

  Mansour Shaki

  (Selected precepts of the ancient sages), a post-Sasanian compendium of apothegms intended to instruct every Zoroastrian male, upon his attaining the age of fifteen years, in fundamental religious and ethical principles, as well as in the daily duties incumbent upon him.

• CIGARETTES

  Cross-Reference

  See DOḴĀNĪYĀT.

• ČIHRDĀD NASK

  D. N. MacKenzie

  one of the lost nasks of the Avesta.

• CILICIA

  Michael Weiskopf

  the southeastern portion of the present Turkish coast, a satrapy of the Achaemenid empire (6th-4th centuries b.c.e.), subsequently incorporated into the Macedonian and Roman empires.

• ČĪM Ī DRŌN

  Cross-Reference

  See DRŌN.

• ČĪM Ī KUSTĪG

  Cross-Reference

  See KUSTĪG.

• CIMMERIANS

  Sergei R. Tokhtas’ev

  a nomadic people, most likely of Iranian origin, who flourished in the 8th-7th centuries B.C.

• ČĪN TĪMŪR

  Peter Jackson

  the first governor of Khorasan and Māzandarān on behalf of the Mongols.

• CINEMA

  Multiple Authors

  This series of articles treats the history of cinema in Persia, Persian feature film, Persian documentary films, film censorship in Persia, and filmography in Persia.

• CINEMA i. History of Cinema in Persia

  Farrokh Gaffary

  The shah ordered his chief photographer, Mīrzā Ebrāhīm ʿAkkās-bāšī, to purchase a Gaumont camera, and footage that he shot at a flower festival in Ostend, Belgium, was probably the first film ever shot by a Persian camera­man.

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• CINEMA ii. Feature Films

  Jamsheed Akrami

  Feature-film production in Persia spans six decades and can be divided into four distinct periods, each reflecting contemporary social, cultural, and political realities.

• CINEMA iii. Documentary Films

  Hamid Naficy

  Be­fore World War I most Persian documentaries were sponsored and viewed only by the Qajar ruling family and the upper classes. They were apparently technically primitive and in a simple narrative format, consisting of footage of news events, topics of current interest, and spectacles, usually filmed in long shot.

• CINEMA iv. Film Censorship

  Jamsheed Akrami

  Persian cinema has been subject from its beginnings to official censorship responding to the concerns of the government, religious establishments, professional groups, and even film distributors.

• CINEMA v. Filmography

  EIr

  A list of films discussed in i-iv above, listed here by year of release and alphabetically within each year. When the information is available producers are listed after the translated titles.

• ČĪNĪ

  John Carswell

  (lit. “Chinese”; borrowed in Arabic as ṣīnī), generic term for Chinese ceramic wares, including porcelain, a translucent, white-bodied ware fired at very high temperatures.

• CINNAMON

  Cross-reference

  See DĀRČĪNĪ.

• CINNAMUS

  Marie Louise Chaumont

  putative rival of Artabanus II (12-38) as king of the Arsacids.

• CINTĀMAṆI

  Priscilla Soucek

  the “wish-fulfilling jewel,” a motif consisting of either a single globe with a pointed extension at the apex or three such globes; either version could be surrounded by a flaming halo.

• ČINWAD PUHL

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  traditionally thought to mean “the bridge of the separator” but recently shown to be “the bridge of the accumulator/collector,” the name of a bridge that, according to a Mazdayasnian/Zoroastrian eschatological myth, leads from this world to the next and must be crossed by the souls of the departed.

• CIRCASSIANS

  Cross-Reference

  See ČARKAS.

• CIRCESIUM

  Joseph Wieseh

  a Roman border fortress in Mesopotamia, on the spit of land formed where the Ḵābūr, the present-day al-Boṣayra, flows into the Euphrates (see maps in Kettenhofen).

• CIRCUMCISION

  Ebrāhīm Šakūrzāda and Mahmoud Omidsalar

  Pers. ḵatna, sonnat (formally also taṭhīr or ḵetān), ḵatnakonān, and sonnatkonān; the last two terms also refer to the festivities associated with the circumcision ritual.

• ČIŠPIŠ

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  (ca. 675-640 BCE), the son of Achaemenes, legendary founder of the Achaemenid dynasty and father of Darius’s great-grandfather Ariaramnes.

• CISSIANS

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  a name for the Susians, the Elamite inhabitants of Susiana.

• ČISTĀ

  Jean Kellens

  and Čisti; Avestan derivatives of the verb cit “to notice, to understand.”

• ČĪSTĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See RIDDLE.

• ČĪT

  Jennifer M. Scarce

  cotton cloth decorated with block-printed or painted designs in multiple colors.

• CITIES

  Multiple Authors

  i. Geographical introduction. ii. City planning, construction, and architecture. See Supplement. iii. Administration and social organization. iv. Modern urbanization and modernization in Persia. v. Modern urbanization and modernization in Afghanistan.

• CITIES i. Geographical Introduction

  Xavier De Planhol

  There is a long history of settlement on Persian territory, where urban life was firmly established in antiquity, and cities continued to proliferate, though, owing to fluctuations in the population, they were highly unstable.

• CITIES iii. Administration and Social Organization

  Ann K. S. Lambton

  This article on the administration and social organization of Persian cities in the Islamic period discusses the following terms and offices: aḥdāṯ, amīr, amīr al-sūq, beglarbegī, ʿasas, čerāḡčī, dārūḡa, dārūḡa-šāgerd, dārūḡačī, dīvānbegī, farrāš, gazma, goḏaṛčī, ḥākem, kadḵodā, kalāntar, mehmāndār-bāšī, mīr-šab, mīrāb, moḥaṣṣes, moḥtaseb, moqtaʿ, naqīb, naqīb al-ašrāf, raʾīs, ṣāḥeb al-šorṭa, šeḥna, wālī.

• CITIES iv. Modern Urbanization and Modernization in Persia

  Eckart Ehlers

  Over a period of decades the rapidly growing popula­tion of Persia has simultaneously become increasingly urbanized. More and more people live in increasingly larger cities, and the largest cities tend to grow at a rate above the average.

• CITIES v. Modern Urbanization and Modernization in Afghanistan

  Erwin Grötzbach

  Since 1359 Š./1980 the flight of millions of Afghans, not only out of the country but also to relatively secure cities like Kabul and Mazār-e Šarīf, has been reflected in a sharp increase in the level of urbanization.

• CITIZENSHIP

  Muhammad A. Dandamayev, Mansour Shaki, Qajar and Pahlavi Periods, Naser Yeganeh

  the legal, political, and social status of every person who belongs to a state.

• ČIΘRA

  Cross-Reference

  See ČEHR.

• ČIΘRAFARNAH

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Iranian personal name meaning “with shining splendor.”

• CITRON

  Cross-Reference

  See BĀLANG; CITRUS FRUITS.