Table of Contents

• GAČSAR

  Minu Yusof Nezhad

  a village in the Karaj district, situated at an altitude of 2,210 m at 110 km northwest of Tehran and 7 km south of the Kandavān Tunnel on the main road to the Caspian coast.

• GAČSĀRĀN

  Eckart Ehlers

  town and oilfield in the province of Ḵūzestān, southwestern Persia.

• GADĀʾĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See BEGGING.

• GÄDIATỊ (SEḰAYỊ FỊRT) COMAQ

  Fridrik Thordarson

  (1883-1931), Ossetic writer.

• ḠADĪR ḴOMM

  Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi

  lit. “pool of Ḵomm”; the name of a pool near a small oasis along the caravan route between the cities of Mecca and Medina, near an area currently known as Joḥfa.

• GADŌTU

  Cross-Reference

  a demon. See UDA.

• ḠAFFĀRĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN

  Cross-Reference

  See ABU’L-ḤASAN KHAN ḠAFFĀRĪ.

• ḠAFFĀRĪ, FARROḴ KHAN

  Cross-Reference

  See AMĪN-AL-DAWLA, ABŪ ṬĀLEB FARROḴ KHAN ḠAFFĀRĪ.

• ḠAFFĀRĪ, ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN KHAN

  Kambiz Eslami

  (1859-1947), Qajar official from the time of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah to that of Aḥmad Shah, considered one of the more congenial figures of the Qajar bureaucracy. His inability to deal effectively with critical situations was often a political liability. His collection of Qajar photographs is impressive in size and for the explanatory captions.

  This Article Has Images/Tables.

• ḠAFFARĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

  a prominent Qajar painter. See KAMĀL-AL-MOLK.