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  • GARŌDMĀN

    William W. Malandra

    the Pahlavi name for heaven and paradise.

  • GARRETT COLLECTION

    Kambiz Eslami

    one of the finest collections of Near Eastern manuscripts, bequeathed to the Princeton University Library by Robert Garrett (1875-1961), a graduate and a trustee of the university.

  • GARRŪS

    Cross-Reference

    See under KURDISTAN, forthcoming online.

  • GARRŪSĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See KURDISH DIALECTS, forthcoming online.

  • GARRŪSĪ, AMĪR NEẒĀM

    Cross-Reference

    See AMĪR NEẒĀM GARRŪSĪ.

  • GARRŪSĪ, FAŻEL KHAN

    Cross-Reference

    See FĀŻEL KHAN GARRŪSĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  • GARŠĀH

    Cross-Reference

    See GAYŌMART.

  • GARŠĀSP

    Cross-Reference

    See KARŠĀSP.

  • GARŠĀSP-NĀMA

    François de Blois

    or Karšāsp-nāma; a long heroic epic by Asadī Ṭūsī (d. 1072/73) completed, as the author says in the epilogue, in 1066, and dedicated to a ruler of Naḵjavān by the name of Abū Dolaf.

  • GARSĒVAZ

    Cross-Reference

    See KARSĒVAZ.

  • GAS, NATURAL

    Cross-Reference

    See NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY IN IRAN.

  • ḠAṢB

    Forthcoming

    concept in Shiʿite law, meaning usurpation or unlawful seizure. See Supplement.

  • GASTEIGER, ALBERT JOSEPH

    HELMUT SLABY

    In 1870, Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah decided to make a pilgrimage to Karbalāʾ, and Gasteiger repaired and partially rebuilt the road via Hamadān and Kermānšāh to the Turkish border and also rendered the road from Kangāvar via Qom to Tehran usable.

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  • GATE

    Cross-Reference

    See DARVĀZA.

  • GATHAS

    Multiple Authors

    or GĀΘĀS; the core of the great Mazdayasnian liturgy, the Yasna, consisting of five gāθās, or modes of song (gā) that comprise seventeen songs composed in Old Avestan language, and arranged according to their five different syllabic meters.

  • GATHAS i

    Helmut Humbach

    Each single song covers one chapter (Av. hāiti-, Phl. ) of the Yasna.

  • GATHAS ii

    William W. Malandra

    Of the entire corpus of the Avesta, the Gathas have been translated far more frequently than any of its other divisions.

  • GAUB(A)RUVA

    Rüdiger Schmitt

    Old Persian personal name, spelled g-u-b-ru-u-v (DB IV 84 etc.) and reflected in Elamite Kam-bar-ma, Babylonian Gu-ba-ru(-ʾ) (DB etc.), Ku-bar-ra (DNc 1), Gu-ba(r)-ri, etc., Aramaic gwbrw (not gwbrwh, as restored in the past), Greek Gōbrýās, Gōbrýēs, and Latin Gobryas. 

  • GAUDEREAU, MARTIN

    Jacqueline Calmard-Compas

    (b. Langeais, 1663; d. Paris, 1743), French missionary priest (and later Abbé) who left valuable observations on Persia and played a part in Franco-Persian relations.

  • GAUGAMELA

    Ernst Badian

    site of one of the greatest battles in history, resulting in the decisive victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III on 1 October 331 B.C.E.

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