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ESFAND
Mahmoud Omidsalar
a common weed found in Persia, Central Asia, and the adjacent areas.
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ESFANDĪĀR (1)
Ehsan Yarshater
son of Goštāsp, Kayanian prince of Iranian legendary history and hero of Zoroastrian holy wars, best known for his tragic combat with with Rostam, the mightiest warrior of Iranian national epic.
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ESFANDĪĀR (2)
Ehsan Yarshater
one of the seven great clans of Parthian and Sasanian times.
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ESFANDĪĀR KHAN BAḴTĪĀRĪ, ṢAMṢĀM-AL-SALṬANA, SARDĀR(-E) ASʿAD
G. R. Garthwaite
(1844-1902), important leader of the Baḵtīārī tribe in southwestern Persia and grandfather of Queen Ṯorayyā.
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ESFANDĪĀRĪ, ḤĀJJ MOḤTAŠAM-AL-SALṬANA ḤASAN
Bāqer ʿĀqelī
(b. 23 April 1867; d. 24 February 1945), politician, governor, and speaker of the Majles.
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ESFARA
Habib Borjian
a district in the Fergana valley south of the Jaxartes which extends to the foothills of the Turkestan range.
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ESFARĀYEN
C. Edmund Bosworth
or ESFARĀʾĪN; a district, and in pre-modern Islamic times, a town, of northwestern Khorasan.
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ESFEZĀRĪ, ABŪ ḤĀTEM
Cross-Reference
5th/12th-century astronomer. See ASFEZĀRĪ, ABŪ ḤĀTEM.
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ESFEZĀRĪ, MOʿĪN-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD ZAMČĪ
MARIA E. Subtelny
(ca. 1446-1510), calligrapher specializing in the taʿlīq script, minor poet (pen name Nāmī), and master of the epistolary art who flourished in Herat during the reign of the Timurid Solṭān-Ḥosayn Bāyqarā.
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ESFĪJĀB
Cross-Reference
See ASFĪJĀB.