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• EXCAVATIONS iv. In Chinese Turkestan

  B. A. LitvinskiĬ

  Chinese Turkestan refers to Xinjiang (Sinkiang), the Uighur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. Other names have often been applied to this part of Central Asia: Serindia (English and French); Ost-Turkestan, Chinesische Ost-Turkestan, Mittelasien (German); Vostochnyĭ Turkestan (Russian). Some of these terms are purely geographical (Mittelasien), some historical (Serindia), and others ethno-cultural (Turkestan).

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• EXECUTIONER

  See JALLĀD.

• EXEGESIS

  Multiple Authors

  (Ar. tafsīr), commentary on or interpretation of sacred texts.

• EXEGESIS i. In Zoroastrianism

  Philip G. Kreyenbroek

• EXEGESIS ii. In Shiʿism

  Meir M. Bar-Asher

• EXEGESIS iii. In Persian

  Annabel Keeler

• EXEGESIS vi. In Aḵbārī and Post-Safavid Esoteric Shiʿism

  Todd Lawson

• EXEGESIS vii. In Bahaism

  Todd Lawson

• EXEGESIS viii. Nishapuri School of Quranic Exegesis

  Walid A. Saleh

  A school of Quranic exegesis was established by three scholars from Nishapur in the 11th century which transformed the genre of tafsir and Quranic sciences and came to be known as the Nishapuri School.

• EXILARCH

  Isaiah M. Gafni

  (Hebrew resh galuta), the leading authority in the Jewish community in Babylonia.

• EXILE

  Cross-Reference

  See DEPORTATIONS; DIASPORA.

• EXTRATERRITORIALITY

  Cross-Reference

  See JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS.

• EXTREMIST SHIʿITES

  Cross-Reference

  See ḠOLĀT.

• EY IRĀN

  Morteza Hoseyni Dehkordi and Parvin Loloi

• EYES and EARS of KING

  Cross-Reference

  See COURTS AND COURTIERS.

• EYVĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See AYVĀN.

• EŻĀFA

  John R. Perry and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi

  (annexation, suppletion), a grammatical term embracing several types of Persian noun phrase in which the constituents are connected by the enclitic -e/-ye (kasra-ye eżāfa “the eżāfa particle”).

• EZGĪL

  AZGĪL

  or AZGĪL. See MEDLAR.

• EZĪRĀN

  Sheila S. Blair

  a village 32 km southeast of Isfahan on the south bank of the river Zāyandarūd. 

• EZNIK OF KOŁB

  James R. Russell

  or KOŁBACʿI (b. ca. 374-80), Armenian Christian theologian and cleric; his work contains a refutation of the Zoroastrian religion. 

• ʿEZRĀ

  Cross-Reference

  See BIBLE.

• ʿEZRĀ, BOOK OF

  J.C. Reeves

  canonical biblical book emanating from the early portion of the Second Temple period (515 B.C.E.-70 C.E.) of Jewish history. 

• ʿEZRĀ-NĀMA

  Amnon Netzer

  paraphrased versification of the Book of ʿEzrā containing midrashic and Iranian legends. 

• ʿEZRĀʾĪL

  Cross-Reference

  lit. "Angel of Death." See Supplement (ANGELS).

• ʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-al-RAŠĪD

  C. E. Bosworth

  See ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD, ABŪ MANṢŪR.

• ʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD MĪRZĀ

  Kambiz Eslami

  (1844-1929), half-brother of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah and governor of several provinces.

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• ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN KĀŠĀNĪ, MAḤMŪD

  Māšā-Allāh Ajūdānī

  b. ʿAlī Naṭanzī (d. 1334-35), an author and Sufi of the early 14th century.

• ʿEZZAT PĀŠĀ, MOḤAMMAD

  Tahsın Yazici

  (1843-1914), author of a Persian-Turkish dictionary and translator of Persian literary works.

• ʿEZZAT-AL-DAWLA, MALEKAZĀDA ḴĀNOM

  Kambiz Eslami

  (1834/35-1905), the only full sister of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah. The first (1849-52) of her five marriages was as second wife of Mīrzā Taqī Khan Amīr Kabīr. One of her two daughters by him married the crown prince Moẓaffar-al-Din Mirza and bore a son, the future Moḥammad-ʿAlī Shah (r. 1907-09). 

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