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ENQELĀB-E SAFĪD
Cross-Reference
See WHITE REVOLUTION.
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ENŠĀʾ
Jürgen Paul
lit. "composition"; the process of creating or composing something as well as the result of this process and the rules of the art; it denotes a genre of prose literature, copies, drafts, or specimens of official and private correspondence.
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ENŠĀʾ-ALLĀH KHĀN, SAYYED
M. Asif Naim Siddiqui
(b. Moršedābād, 1756; d. Lucknow, 1818), Urdu-Persian poet and writer.
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ENSĀN-E KĀMEL
Gerhard Böwering
lit. "the Perfect Human Being"; a key idea in the philosophy and ethics of Islamic mysticism.
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ENTEBĀH
L. P. ELWELL-SUTTON
lit. “Awakening”; a Persian newspaper published in Karbalā, Iraq, in 1914 by Mīrzā ʿAlī Āqā Šīrāzī Labīb-al-Molk, editor of Moẓaffarī published in Būšehr and Mecca.
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ENTEẒĀM, ʿABD-ALLĀH and NAṢR-ALLĀH
Fakhreddin Azimi
two brothers active in 20th-century Persian politics. ʿAbd-Allāh (1895-1983), as a career diplomat, served in various posts, including minister of foreign affairs. Naṣr-Allāh (1899-1980) held a series of ministerial posts under Moḥammad Reżā Shah, including the ambassadorship to the United States.
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ĖNTSIKLOPEDIYAI SOVETII TOJIK
H. Borjian
(Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia), the first general encyclopedia of Tajikistan, published in the Tajik Persian language and Cyrillic alphabet (8 vols., Dushanbe, 1978-88).
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Eskandar Firouz, Daniel Balland
efforts to protect natural resources, wildlife, and ecosystems and to control pollution. In Persia conservation consciousness began, as it so often does, with concern for wildlife.
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ENZELI
Cross-Reference
See ANZALĪ.
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EPHESUS, SEVEN SLEEPERS OF
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Christian legend attested by texts in many languages.