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• 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

  Cross-Reference

  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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