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  • ʿEMĀMA

    Cross-Reference

    the turban. See ʿAMĀMA.

  • EMĀMA

    Cross-Reference

    (Imamate), see SHIʿITE DOCTRINE.

  • EMĀMĪ HERĀVĪ, RAŻĪ-AL-DĪN ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH MOḤAMMAD

    J. T. P. de Bruijn

    b. Abī Bakr b. ʿOṯmān (b. in Herat; d. in Isfahan, 1287), Persian poet of the Mongol period also noted for his learning.

  • EMĀMĪ, JAMĀL

    Fakhreddin Azimi

    (b. 1901, Koy; d. 1966, Paris), politician.

  • EMAMI, KARIM

    ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Āzarang and EIr

    Emami took an early interest in contemporary Persian art and literature. In 1959, before starting his career as a journalist and translator, he worked as a photographer and filmmaker at the film studio of Ebrāhim Golestān (b. 1922), modernist writer and director.

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  • EMĀMĪ, Sayyed ḤASAN

    Cyrus Mir

    (1903-1981), Friday prayer leader of Tehran from 1947 to 1978. He studied traditional Islamic sciences in Tehran and continental law in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon completing his doctorate, he returned to Iran and worked as a judge in the Ministry of Justice. He was regarded as a member of the shah’s inner circle. 

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  • EMĀMĪYA

    Cross-Reference

    See SHIʿITE DOCTRINE; SHIʿITE DOCTRINE ii. Hierarchy in the Imamiyya.

  • EMĀMQOLĪ KHAN

    Roger M. Savory

    son of the celebrated Georgian ḡolām Allāhverdī Khan; governor-general (beglarbeg) of Fārs in the early 17th century.

  • EMĀMVERDĪ MĪRZĀ ĪL-ḴĀNĪ

    Ḥosayn Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

    (b. 9 March 1796), the twelfth son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah Qajar; his mother was Begom Jān Qazvīnī.

  • EMĀMZĀDA

    Multiple Authors

    a shrine believed to be the tomb of a descendent of a Shiʿite Imam. such structures are also known as āstāna (lit., threshold), marqad (resting place, mausoleum), boqʿa (revered site), rawża (garden/tomb), gonbad (dome), mašhad (place of martyrdom), maqām (site/abode), qadamgāh (stepping place), and torbat (dust, grave).