Table of Contents

• ILLUMINATIONISM

  Hossein Ziai

  or Illuminationist philosophy, first introduced in the 12th century as a complete, reconstructed system distinct both from the Peripatetic philosophy  of Avicenna and from theological philosophy.

• IMĀMIYA

  Cross-reference

  See SHIʿITE DOCTRINE; SHIʿITE DOCTRINE ii. Hierarchy in the Imamiyya.

• IMMORTALS

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  (Gk. athánatoi), name of a corps of 10,000 Persian élite infantry soldiers in Herodotus, in connection with Xerxes’ campaign against Greece in 480–479 BCE.

• IMPERIAL BANK OF PERSIA

  Cross-Reference

  See Supplement.

• INĀLU

  cross-reference

  See ḴAMSA.

• ÏNĀNČ ḴĀTUN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  wife of the Atābeg Jahān-Pahlavān Moḥammad (r. 1175-86), the Eldigüzid (or Ildegizid) ruler in Arrān, most of Azerbaijan, and then Jebāl.

• INCEST AND INBREEDING

  Geert Jan Van Gelder

  Incest and inbreeding are two different but related aspects of marriage and human reproduction.

• INDIA

  Multiple Authors

  This series of entries covers Indian history and its relations with Iran.

• INDIA i. Introduction

  Christopher J. Brunner

  This entry presents a series of survey articles on selected areas of interaction and mutual influence between the two culture areas, including overviews of the enormous body of literature produced in India in the Persian language.

• INDIA ii. Historical Geography

  Pierfrancesco Callieri

  The geographical borders between the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent are well defined by features, such as mountain ranges, which represent the western limits of the Indus River valley.