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GĪLĀS
Cross-Reference
See CHERRY.
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GILCHRIST, JOHN BORTHWICK
John R. Perry
(1759-1841), physician, Indologist, and teacher of Persian and Urdu who pioneered the Western study and teaching of modern Indian languages in British India.
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ḠILZĪ
M. Jamil Hanifi
or ḠALZĪ, one of three major Pashtun/Paxtun tribal confederations in Afghanistan.
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GINDAROS
Erich Kettenhofen
present-day Jendīres, a town in the ancient region of Cyrrhestike in Syria.
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GIŌNI
Colin MacKinnon
or Giāni; a Persian dialect of the Northern Lor type, spoken in the village of Giān/Giō, 12 km west of the city of Nehāvand.
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GISTĀN QARA
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b. Jani Beg. See KISTĀN QARĀ b. Jani Beg.
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GISU-DARĀZ
Richard M. Eaton
or Gēsu-darāz (b. Delhi, 1321-d. Gulbarga, 1422), the popular title of Sayyed MOḤAMMAD b. Yusof Ḥosayni, the most important transmitter of Sufi traditions from North India to the Deccan plateau.
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GITI
Nassereddin Parvin
a leftist daily paper published from 24 June 1943 to December 1943 by Ḵalil Enqelāb Āḏar as the official organ of the Workers union.
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Giv
Cross-Reference
Giv. See Gēv.
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GIV, ROSTAM
Farhang Mehr
In 1953, Giv created the Rostam Giv Charitable Foundation for the promotion of the education and welfare of the Zoroastrian community. In the same year, he encouraged his brother’s heirs to endow an elementary school for girls in Tehran. He also built sixty low-rent houses, equipped with modern amenities, for needy Zoroastrians.
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