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  • EQBĀL, MANŪČEHR

    Ahmad Ashraf

    (1909-1977), prime minister 1957-60, minister of the Royal Court, head of National Iranian Oil Company, and professor of medicine. He was regarded as an honest and ascetic man. His authoritarian character, obedience and unswerving loyalty to the shah, and political ambition, made him a trusted aide, but not a popular political figure.

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  • EQBĀL-AL-SOLṬĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See EQBĀL ĀḎAR.

  • EQBĀL-NĀMA

    Cross-Reference

    See ESKANDAR-NĀMA-ye NEẒĀMI.

  • ʿEQD-AL-ʿOLĀ

    Cross-Reference

    See AFŻAL-AL-DIN KERMĀNI.

  • EQDĀM

    Nassereddin Parvin

    name of two separate series of a Persian newspaper published and edited in the first half of the twentieth century in Tehran by the journalist, poet, novelist, and translator, ʿAbbās Ḵalīlī.

  • EQLĪD

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    a small town of medieval Fārs, now in the modern rural subdistrict of the same name.

  • EQLĪM

    Cross-Reference

    See CLIME.

  • EQṬĀʿ

    A. K. S. Lambton

    in its various forms one of the most persistent and important tenurial, economic and social institutions of medieval Persia.

  • EQTEṢĀD

    Cross-Reference

    See ECONOMY.

  • ĒR, ĒR MAZDĒSN

    Gherardo Gnoli

    an ethnonym, like Old Persian ariya- and Avestan airya-, meaning “Aryan” or “Iranian.”

  • ERĀDA-YE MELLĪ

    Pīrāya Yaḡmāʾī

    lit. "national will"; a pro-British political party founded on 19 January 1944 by Sayyed Żīāʾ al-Dīn Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1891-1969), a devout anglophile politician and journalist.

  • ĒRĀN, ĒRĀNŠAHR

    D. N. MacKenzie

    ērānšahr properly denotes the empire, while ērān signifies “of the Iranians.”

  • ĒRĀN-ĀMĀRGAR

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀMĀRGAR.

  • ĒRĀN-ĀSĀN-KERD-KAWĀD

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Kawād [has] made Ērān peaceful"; name of a Sasanian province (šahr) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531).

  • ĒRĀN-ŠĀD-KAWĀD

    Rika Gyselen

    name of a Sasanian town occurring in post-Sasanian sources only.

  • ĒRĀN-ŠAHR

    Cross-Reference

    See ĒRĀN.

  • ĒRĀN-WĒZ

    D. N. MacKenzie

    the Middle Persian designation of the territory of the Aryans.

  • ĒRĀN-WIN(N)ĀRD-KAWĀ

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Kawād[has] arranged Ērān"; name of a Sasanian province (šahrestān) created by Kawād I (r. 488-531) in his reorganization of the empire.

  • ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Ērān, glory of Šāpūr"; Sasanian province (šahrestān) containing Susa and probably created by Šāpūr II (r. 309-379).

  • ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-YAZDGERD

    Rika Gyselen

    lit. "Ērān, glory of Yazdegerd"; Sasanian province probably created by Yazdegerd II (438-457).