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• GARDĪZĪ, ABŪ SAʿĪD ʿABD-al-ḤAYY

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  b. Żaḥḥāk b. Maḥmūd, Persian historian of the early 5th/11th century. He was clearly connected with the Ghaznavid court and administration and close to the sultans.

• GARDŌY

  Cross-Reference

  sister of Bahrām Čōbīn. See BAHRĀM (2) vii.

• GARGAR RIVER

  Cross-Reference

  See KĀRŪN RIVER.

• GARLIC

  Etrat Elahi

  or allium sativum; a species in the onion family Alliaceae used as an ingredient in a variety of Persian dishes mainly as a condiment.

• GARMAPADA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  name of the fourth month (June-July) of the Old Persian calendar.

• GARMSĀR

  Bernard Hourcade

  a region (Qešlāq and Garmsār) in the province of Semnān situated beyond the Caspian Gates, known particularly as a stopover on the great road to Khorasan.

• GARMSĪR AND SARDSĪR

  Xavier de Planhol

  lit. "warm zones and cold zones"; two terms identifying regional entities that form a major geographical contrast deeply affecting the popular conscience in Persia.

• GARŌDMĀN

  William W. Malandra

  the Pahlavi name for heaven and paradise.

• GARRETT COLLECTION

  Kambiz Eslami

  one of the finest collections of Near Eastern manuscripts, bequeathed to the Princeton University Library by Robert Garrett (1875-1961), a graduate and a trustee of the university.

• GARRŪS

  Cross-Reference

  See under KURDISTAN, forthcoming online.