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ELEMENTS
Mansour Shaki
i. In Zoroastrianism. ii. In Manicheism. iii. In Persian.
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ELEPHANT i. IN THE NEAR EAST
François De Blois
i. IN THE NEAR EAST
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ELEPHANT ii. In the Sasanian Army
Michael B. Charles
ii. IN THE SASANIAN ARMY
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ELEPHANTINE
Edda Bresciani
the largest island in the Nile, opposite Syene.
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ELGOOD, CYRIL LLOYD
F. R. C. Bagley
(1893-1970), British historian of medicine in Persia.
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ELIAS OF NISIBIS
Cross-Reference
See ELĪJĀ BAR ŠĪNĀJĀ.
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ELĪF EFENDI, Ḥaṣīrīzāda
Tahsin Yaziçi
(b. in Sütlüce, May 1850; d. 4 December 1926), Turkish poet and scholar.
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ELĪJĀ BAR ŠĪNĀJĀ
Wolfgang Felix
(975-1049) prominent Nestorian polyhistor. 975-1049). His work is an important source for Sasanian history. In 1002 he was made bishop of Bēṯ Nuhādrē in Adiabene, and in 1008 metropolitan of Nisibis (Naṣībīn). He wrote in Syriac and Arabic on theological issues.
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ELIKEAN, GRIGOR E.
Aram Arkun
(1880-1951), an active figure in Persian and Armenian politics, the press, and literature.
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EŁIŠĒ
Robert W. Thomson
or Elisaeus, fifth century author of the History of Vardan and the Armenian War, a detailed account of the Armenian rebellion against Yazdegerd II in 450, which was prompted by his persecution of their Christian faith.