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• EVAGRIUS PONTICUS

  Nicholas Sims-Williams

  (346-399 C.E.), prolific author of Christian literature in Greek.

• EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF IRAN

  Cross-Reference

  See CHRISTIANITY viii. Christian Missions in Persia.

• EVANGELION

  Cross-Reference

  See ANGALYŪN; MĀNĪ; MANICHEISM.

• EVIL

  Etan Kohlberg

  wickedness, harm, ill fortune.

• EVIL EYE

  Cross-Reference

  See ČAŠM-ZAḴM.

• EVIL MIND

  Cross-Reference

  See AKŌMAN.

• EVĪN PRISON

  Forthcoming

  See Supplement.

• EVOLUTION

  based on a longer article by ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn ZarrĪnkūb

  (takāmol, taḥawwol), a family of ideas embodying the belief that the physical universe and living organisms have developed in a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler to a higher, more complex state.

• EWEN NĀMAG

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀʾĪN-NĀMA.

• ĒWĒNBED

  Philippe Gignoux

  lit. "master of manners"; Pahlavi title attested from the 3rd century C.E.