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• ḠĪĀṮ-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 ḠĪĀṮ BEG.

• ḠĪĀṮ-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.

• ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN RĀMPURI

  Gregory Maxwell Bruce

  (1785-1852), MOḤAMMAD, Persian lexicographer, literary scholar, philologist, poet, and teacher.

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• ḠĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN ŠĪRĀZĪ

  Lisa Golombek

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

• ḠĪĀṮ-AL-DIN TOḠLOQ

  Cross-Reference

  See DELHI SULTANATE i; TUGHLUQIDS.

• ḠĪĀṮVAND

  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.

• GIBBON, EDWARD

  Michael Rogers

  (1737-1794), author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London, 1776-88). Relations of Persia and the later steppe nomads with the East Roman/Byzantine empire are an essential component of Gibbon’s celebrated history.

• GIFT GIVING

  Multiple Authors

  various aspects of gift giving in Persia.

• GIFT GIVING i. Introduction

  EIr

  The following article constitutes a preliminary attempt at studying various aspects of gift giving in a chronological and historical framework, from the pre-Islamic era to the early modern period.