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• GĪĀṮ BEG, ʿEʿTEMĀD-AL-DAWLA

  Mehrdad Shokoohy

  or Gīāṯ-al-Dīn Moḥammad Tehrānī (d. 1622), prime minister of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr and father of the emperor’s wife, Nūr Jahān.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN BALBAN

  Cross-Reference

  See DELHI SULTANATE.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN DAŠTAKĪ

  Cross-Reference

  (1462-1541), scholar, philosopher, and motakallem (theologian) of the late Timurid and early Safavid period, and, for a brief interval under Shah Ṭahmāsb, one of two ṣadrs (chief clerical overseers). See DAŠTAKI, GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  Peter Jackson and Charles Melville

  (d. 1336), Il-khanid vizier, the son of Rašīd-al-Dīn Fażl-Allāh Hamadānī (executed 1318), the celebrated historian and vizier of Ḡāzān Khan.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD TEHRĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  (d. 1622), prime minister of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr and father of the emperor’s wife, Nūr Jahān. See GĪĀṮ BEG.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN NAQQĀŠ

  Priscilla Soucek

  a painter (naqqāš) active in Herat ca. 1419-30, where he was in the employ of the Timurid Bāysonḡor b. Šāhroḵ.

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN ŠĪRĀZĪ

  Lisa Golombek

  master architect in Khorasan during the reign of the Timurid Šāhroḵ (1405-47).

• GĪĀṮ-AL-DIN TOḠLOQ

  Cross-Reference

  See DELHI SULTANATE i; TUGHLUQIDS.

• GĪĀṮVAND

  Pierre Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of the Qazvīn region.

• GIBB MEMORIAL SERIES

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  or GMS; a series of publications, which has continued for almost a century, mainly, but not exclusively, dedicated to editions and translations of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish texts.