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• GABAE

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  the name of two places in Persia and Sogdiana.

• GABAIN, ANNEMARIE VON

  Peter Zieme

  (1901-1993), German scholar who worked in the field of Central Asian (primarily Turkic) studies, first as a linguist but later as an art historian.

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• GABBA

  Jean-Pierre Digard and Carol Bier

  a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 × 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This kind of rug is common among the tribes of the Zagros (Kurdish, Lori-speaking ethnic groups, Qašqāʾīs).

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• GABR

  Mansour Shaki

  a New Persian term used from the earliest period as a technical term synonymous with mōḡ (magus). With the dwindling of the Zoroastrian community,  the term came to have a pejorative implication.

• GABRA

  Cross-Reference

  See GŌR.

• GABRI WARE

  Cross-Reference

  See CERAMICS.

• GABRIEL, ALFONS

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• GABRIELI, FRANCESCO

  Giuliano Lancioni

  (1904-1996), Italian Arabist and orientalist, who contributed to the study of Persian literature.

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• GAČ

  Cross-Reference

  See GYPSUM.

• GAČ-BORĪ

  Sheila S. Blair

  plasterwork or stucco. Gypsum plaster has been used as a building material in Persia for more than 2,500 years. Originally it may have been applied as a rendering to mud brick walls to protect them from the weather, but it was soon exploited for its decorative effects.

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