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• GOWHAR-E MORĀD (1)

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

   

• GOWHAR-E MORĀD (2)

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  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

  constructed in the early 15th century, 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

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  See TOMATO.

• GOWRAK

  Pierre Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe in northwestern Persia.

• GOWZ

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  See WALNUT.

• GŌZEHR

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  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”).