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ĒLTOTMEŠ, ŠAMS-AL-DĪN
Peter Jackson
(d. 1236), first Sultan of Delhi.
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ELWELL-SUTTON, LAURENCE PAUL
C. Edmund Bosworth
Elwell-Sutton’s interests and publications in Persian studies fall into five categories: Persian language; Persian literature; modern Persian history and politics; Persian folklore; and Islamic science. His Colloquial Persian and Elementary Persian Grammar have remained in print as standard works.
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ELYĀSIDS
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E ELYĀS.
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ELYMAIS
John F. Hansman
semi-independent state frequently subject to Parthian domination, which existed between the second century B.C.E. and the early third century C. E. in the territories of Ḵūzestān, in southwestern Persia.
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ʿEMĀD ḤASANĪ, MĪR, ʿEMĀD-AL-MOLK
Kambiz Eslami
b. Ebrāhīm (ca. 1554-1615), calligrapher. His rendition of nastaʿlīq, with smooth lines, many curves, very occasional diacritical marks, symmetry of letters and words, and usually excellent choice of decorations surrounding the words, had widespread appeal.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-DAWLA
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Būya b. Fanā-Ḵosrow, the eldest of three brothers who came to power in western Persia during the tenth century as military adventurers and founded the Buyid dynasty.
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ʿEMĀD-al-DAWLA, Mīrzā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER
Kathryn Babayan
WAḤĪD QAZVĪNĪ (ca. 1615-1701), poet and Safavid court historiographer for nearly three decades (1645-74).
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ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ FAQĪH KERMĀNĪ
J. T. P. de Bruijn
mystic and poet of the 14th century who used ʿEmād or, more rarely, ʿEmād-e Faqīh, as a pen name.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN KĀTEB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD
Donald S. Richards
b. Moḥammad b. Ḥāmed EṢFAHĀNĪ, an eminent 12th-century government servant and man of letters, born in Isfahan in 1125.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MAḤMŪD
Emilie Savage-Smith
b. Serāj-al-Dīn Masʿūd ŠĪRĀZĪ, the most prominent member of a 16th-century family of physicians in Shiraz.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN, ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Solṭān-al-Dawla Abū Šojāʿ (1009-48), amir of the Buyid dynasty in the period of that family’s decadence and incipient disintegration, being the last effective ruler of the line.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-ESLĀM
Maria E. Subtelny
b. Moḥammad ʿAtīq-Allāh (1470-1506), a vizier of the Timurid Sultan Ḥosayn Bāyqarā, executed in Herat in 1498.
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ʿEMĀD-AL-KOTTĀB, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN SAYFĪ QAZVĪNĪ
ʿAbd-Allāh Forādi
(b. Qazvīn, 16 April 1866; d. Tehran, 17 July 1936), calligrapher.
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ʿEMĀDĪ RĀZĪ
Taqi Pūr-Nāmdārīān
poet of the first half of the 12th century.
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EMĀM
Cross-Reference
(Imam), see SHIʿITE DOCTRINE; ČAHĀRDAH MAʿSŪM.
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EMĀM ṢĀḤEB
Mehrdad Shokouhi
two archeological sites in Afghanistan: (1) a village near the south bank of the Amū Daryā, about 50 km north of Qondūz, (2) a village in the Jōzjān region, south of the river Balḵāb, halfway between Balḵ and Āqča.
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EMĀM-AL-ḤARAMAYN
Cross-Reference
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EMĀM-E ḠĀʾEB
Cross-Reference
"The Hidden Imam." See ḠAYBA and ISLAM IN IRAN vii. THE CONCEPT OF MAHDI IN TWELVER SHIʿISM.
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EMĀM-E JOMʿA
Hamid Algar
leader of the congregational prayer performed at midday on Fridays.
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EMĀM-E ZAMĀN
Cross-Reference
Mahdi or "The Hidden Imam." See ḠAYBA and ISLAM IN IRAN vii. THE CONCEPT OF MAHDI IN TWELVER SHIʿISM.