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ESKANDAR
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See ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
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ESKANDAR B. JĀNĪ BEG
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ESKANDAR BEG TORKAMĀN MONŠĪ
Roger M. Savory
sixteenth century author of Tārīḵ-e ʿālamārā-ye ʿabbāsī, a history of the reign of Shah ʿAbbās I.
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ESKANDAR MĪRZĀ
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pro-Persian member of the royal family of Georgia (b. 1770, d. after 1830).See ALEXANDER, PRINCE.
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ESKANDAR SOLṬĀN
Priscilla Soucek
b. ʿOmar Šayḵ b. Tīmūr (1384-1415), Timurid prince who ruled a succession of cities in western Persia between 1403 and 1415 but is remembered mostly for his cultural patronage.
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ESKANDAR-NĀMA
William L. Hanaway
Alexander the Great and the adventure tale about him known generically as the Alexander romance.
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ESKANDAR-NĀMA OF NEẒĀMĪ
François de Blois
the poetical version of the life of Alexander by the great 12th century narrative poet Neẓāmī Ganjavī (1141-1209).
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ESKANDARĪ, ĪRAJ
Cosroe Chaqueri
(1907-1985), prominent leader of the Tudeh Party. From 1948 he worked for the Tudeh party in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, and finally Leipzig. His lukewarm attitude toward the Islamic Revolution and refusal of a Soviet offer to help turn Persia into another Afghanistan cost him his leadership position in 1979.
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ESKANDARĪ, MOḤTARAM
Mehrangīz Dawlatšāhī
a pioneer advocate of women’s rights in Persia (1895-1925) and the founder and leader of the first women’s association in Persia, namely Jamʿīyat-e taraqqī-e neswān, later Jamʿīyat-e neswān-e waṭanḵᵛāh (Society of Patriotic Women).
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ESKANDARĪ, SOLAYMĀN (MOḤSEN) MĪRZĀ
Cosroe Chaqueri
(1875-1944), constitutionalist, civil servant, statesman, founder of the Ejtemāʿīyūn (Socialists) political party in the 1920s. His interest in social justice and egalitarianism was more rooted in Islam than in the European Enlightenment or European socialism.
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