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• ELTON, JOHN

  John Perry

  (?-1751), English merchant, seaman and shipbuilder for Nāder Shah Afšār.

• ĒLTOTMEŠ, ŠAMS-AL-DĪN

  Peter Jackson

  (d. 1236), first Sultan of Delhi.

• ELWELL-SUTTON, LAURENCE PAUL

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (b. Ballylickey, Cork County, Ireland, 2 June 1912-d. Edinburgh, 2 September 1984), scholar of Islamic and modern Persia.

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• ELYĀSIDS

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E ELYĀS.

• 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.

• ʿEMĀD ḤASANĪ, MĪR, ʿEMĀD-AL-MOLK

  Kambiz Eslami

  b. Ebrāhīm (ca. 1554-1615), celebrated 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 during his lifetime and after his death.

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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.

• ʿEMĀD-al-DAWLA, Mīrzā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER

  Kathryn Babayan

  WAḤĪD QAZVĪNĪ (ca. 1615-1701), poet and Safavid court historiographer for nearly three decades (1645-74).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ʿEMĀD-AL-KOTTĀB, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN SAYFĪ QAZVĪNĪ

  ʿAbd-Allāh Forādi

  (b. Qazvīn, 16 April 1866; d. Tehran, 17 July 1936), calligrapher.

• ʿEMĀD-AL-MOLK

  Forthcoming

  See NEẒĀM-AL-MOLK (pending).

• ʿEMĀDĪ RĀZĪ

  Taqi Pūr-Nāmdārīān

  poet of the first half of the 12th century.

• EMĀM

  Cross-Reference

  (Imam), see SHIʿITE DOCTRINE; ČAHĀRDAH MAʿSŪM.

• 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.

• EMĀM-AL-ḤARAMAYN

  Cross-Reference

  See JOVAYNĪ, Emām-al-Ḥaramayn.

• EMĀM-E ḠĀʾEB

  Cross-Reference

  "The Hidden Imam." See ḠAYBA and ISLAM IN IRAN vii. THE CONCEPT OF MAHDI IN TWELVER SHIʿISM.