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• ḴAṬṬĀBIYA

  Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

  an extremist Shiʿite sect named after Abu’l-Ḵaṭṭāb al-Asadi (killed ca. 755) who for some time was an authorized representative of Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq (d. ca. 765) in Kufa.

• ḴATTĀʾI, ʿALI-AKBAR

  Cross-reference

  See ḴETTĀʾI, ʿALI-AKBAR (pending).

• KATTĀN

  Cross-reference

  See LINEN (pending).

• ḴAṬṬĀTI

  Cross-reference

  See CALLIGRAPHY.

• ḴĀTUN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a title of high-born women in the pre-modern Turkish and Persian worlds.

• ḴĀTUNI, ABU ṬĀHER

  cross-reference

  See ABU ṬĀHER ḴĀTUNI.

• KĀVA

  Mahmud Omidsalar

  the name of a heroic blacksmith in the Šāhnāma who rebels against the tyrant Żaḥḥāk and helps Ferēdun wrest the kingdom from him.

• KĀVA NEWSPAPER

  Iraj Afšār

  (Kaveh), a Persian journal (1916-22) published in Berlin by Sayyed Ḥasan Taqizāda, who headed a group of nationalist Persians living in Germany known as Komita-ye Melliyun-e Irāni dar Berlan (Iranian Nationalist Committee of Berlin).

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• ḴĀVARĀN-NĀMA

  Cross-reference

  See KHAVARAN-NAMA (pending).

• ḴĀVARI KĀŠĀNI

  Mehrdad Amanat

  preacher, poet, journalist, and constitutional activist. Ḵāvari learned the fundamentals of traditional learning from his preacher father, Sayyed Hāšem Wāʿeẓ.