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ʿENĀYAT-ALLĀH KANBO
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi
(b. Burhanpur, 31 August 1608; d. Delhi, 23 September 1671), Sufi and scholar, descendant of an old respected Lahore family that had converted to Islam in Punjab.
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM
Elton L. Daniel
a reference work of fundamental importance on topics dealing, according to its self-description, with “the geography, ethnography and biography of the Muhammadan peoples.”
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TAJIKISTAN
Cross-Reference
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ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, PERSIAN
Živa Vesel and Hūšang Aʿlam
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Premodern, ii. Modern.
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ENDOWMENT
Cross-Reference
On charitable endowments (waqf), at present see AMLĀK, ḴĀṢṢA.
Regarding institutions, see CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS. See under individual entries, such as BONYĀD-E FARHANG-E ĪRĀN; BONYĀD-E ŠAHĪD; BONYĀD-E ŠĀH-NĀMA-YE FERDOWSĪ.
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ENGLAND
Cross-Reference
See GREAT BRITAIN.
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ENGLISH i. Persian Elements in English
D. N. Mackenzie
OVERVIEW of the entry: i. Persian elements in English. ii. Persian influences in English and American literature. iii. Translations of classical Persian literature. iv. Translations of modern Persian literature. v. i. Translations of English literature into Persian.
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ENGLISH ii. Persian Influences in English and American Literature
John D. Yohannan
Although academic Persian studies may be said to have begun in England in the early 17th century, it was not until the late 18th century that the Persian poets began to be read in English translations.
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ENGLISH iii. Translations Of Classical Persian Literature
Michael Beard
fall initially into two categories. There is a group of texts whose purpose is to convey the information of the original in discrete units, most useful with prose or narrative poetry and not necessarily “literary.” There are other translations designed to carry over the formal elements of a literary text.