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• GOTARZES

  Cross-Reference

  See GŌDARZ.

• GOTTHEIL, RICHARD JAMES HORATIO

  Dagmar Riedel

  (b. Manchester, UK, 1862; d. New York City, 1936), a prolific scholar, an important academic teacher and administrator, as well as an influential public intellectual.

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• GÖTTINGEN, UNIVERSITY OF, HISTORY OF IRANIAN STUDIES

  Ludwig Paul

  History of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen.

• GOUVEA, ANTONIO DE

  Rudi Matthee

  (b. Beja, Portugal, 1575; d. Manzanares, Spain, 1628), Augustinian missionary and Portuguese envoy who visited Persia three times between 1602 and 1613 and who wrote on Persia.

• GOVĀḴARZ

  Cross-Reference

  a district in the medieval province of Qohestān in Khorasan. See BĀKARZ.

• GOWD-E ZEREH

  Cross-Reference

  See HĀMUN;

• GOWDIN TEPE

  Cross-Reference

  an archeological site in western Persia. See GODIN TEPE.

• GOWHAR

  Nasereddin Parvin

  a cultural journal published monthly from January 1973 to December 1978 (issue no. 72) of the philanthropic organization of Mortażā Nuriāni.

• GOWHAR ḴĀTUN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a Saljuq princess who became the second wife of the Ghaznavid Sultan Masʿud III (r. 1099-1115).

• GOWHAR-ĀʾĪN, Saʿd-al-dawla

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (d. 1100), Turkish eunuch slave commander of the Great Saljuqs.

• GOWHAR-E MORĀD (1)

  Cross-Reference

  philosopher and poet. See ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ.

   

• GOWHAR-E MORĀD (2)

  Cross-Reference

  pen name of the 20th-century author Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Sāʿedi. See SA'EDI, GHOLAM-HOSAYN.

• GOWHAR-ŠĀD ĀḠĀ

  Beatrice Forbes Manz

  wife of Sultan Šāhroḵ b. Timur (r. 1409-47) and daughter of Ḡiāṯ-al-Din Tarḵān, a ranking amir under Timur.

• GOWHAR-ŠĀD MOSQUE

  Lisa Golombek

  Since its construction in the early 15th century, the Gowhar-šād Mosque has served as the Friday mosque for pilgrims to the tomb of Imam ʿAli al-Reżā in Mašhad, so named after this famous shrine.

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• GOWHARIN, SAYYED SĀDEQ

  Peter Avery

  (b. Tehran, 1914; d. Tehran, 1995), scholar of Sufism and professor at the University of Tehran.

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• GOWJA FARANGI

  Cross-Reference

  See TOMATO.

• GOWRAK

  Pierre Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe in northwestern Persia.

• GOWZ

  Cross-Reference

  See WALNUT.

• GŌZEHR

  Cross-Reference

  Bazarangid ruler in Fārs. See ARDAŠĪR I.

• GŌZIHR

  D. N. Mackenzie

  the Middle Persian development of an old Iranian compound adjective *gau-čiθra-, recorded in the Younger Avesta in the form gaočiθra-, as an epithet of the moon, “bearing the seed, having the origin of cattle” (or, “the ox”).