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  • GAŽDAHAM

    Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

    an Iranian hero of Dež-e Safīd, a fortress near the border seperating Iran from Tūrān, during the reigns of the Kayanid kings Nōḏar and Kay Kāvūs.

  • GAZELLE

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀHŪ, CHINKARA.

  • GAZĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ISFAHAN xxii.

  • GAZMA

    Cross-Reference

    See CITIES.

  • ḠAZNAVĪ, ABŪ RAJĀʾ

    EIr

    b. Masʿūd III, a poet at the court of the Ghaznavid sultan Bahrāmšāh (r. ca. 1117-1157).

  • ḠAZNĪ

    Xavier de Planhol, Roberta Giunta

    or Ḡazna, Ḡaznīn; province and city in southeastern Afghanistan, the latter situated 136 km south of Kabul at an altitude of about 2,200 meters. The earliest known monuments of Ḡaznī belong to the Ghaznavid period (366-583/977-1187), the best representative of which are the two minarets standing east of the citadel, close to two large mounds resembling mosques.

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  • GAZOPHYLACIUM LINGUAE PERSICAE

    Cross-Reference

    See DICTIONARIES iii.

  • GĀZORGĀH

    Lisa Golombek

    a village approximately 2.5 miles northeast of the city of Herat in present-day northwestern Afghanistan at 34°22′ N and 62°14′ E, situated at an elevation of 4,100 feet.

  • GĀZORGĀHĪ, MĪR KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN

    Shiro Ando

    b. Šeḥāb-al-Dīn Esmāʿīl Ṭabasī (b. 1469/70), a Timurid ṣadr and author of a collection of biographies of Sufis known as the Majāles al-ʿoššāq.

  • GEBER

    Cross-Reference

    See GABR, MAJŪS.

  • GEDROSIA

    Willem J. Vogelsang

    or Kedrosia; a place-name known only from Classical sources.

  • GEIGER, BERNHARD

    RÜDIGER SCHMITT

    (b. Bielitz, 1881; d. New York, 1964), scholar of Indo-Iranian studies.

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  • GEIGER, WILHELM

    Bernfried Schlerath

    (b. Nuremberg, 1856; d. Neubiberg, 1943), German scholar of Iranian and Indian philology.

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  • GĒL

    Cross-Reference

    tribes in the Arsacid and Sasanian periods. See GĪLĀN.

  • GELDNER, KARL FRIEDRICH

    Bernfried Schlerath

    (1852-1929), German scholar of Iranian and Indian studies.

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  • GELĪM

    Cross-Reference

    See CARPETS.

  • GELPKE, RUDOLF

    HERMANN LANDOLT

    (1928-1972), Swiss scholar, writer, and translator of Persian literature.

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  • GELŠĀH

    Cross-Reference

    See GAYŌMART.

  • GEMCUTTING

    Parviz Mohebbi

    (Pers. ḥakkākī), the process of shaping and polishing faceted gemstones. The first-known reference in Persian to gem cutting is found in an anonymous treatise on jewelry, Jowhar-nāma-ye neẓāmī, written in 1195-96 under the last Ḵᵛārazmšāh. According to the sources, gem cutting and polishing were both done by the same machine—the grinding wheel or čarḵ-e ḥakkākī.

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  • GENÇOSMAN, MEHMED NURÎ

    Tahsın Yazici

    (b. Ağın district of Elazığ, 1897; d. Istanbul, 1976), Turkish poet and translator of Persian works.