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ḴAṬMI
Ahmad Aryavand and Bahram Grami
(or ḵeṭmi), “marshmallow,” Althaea officinalis L. of the family Malvaceae (the mallow family), an important pharmaceutical plant.
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ḴATNA
Cross-reference
See CIRCUMCISION.
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KATPATUKA
Cross-reference
See CAPPADOCIA.
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ḴAṬṬ-E FĀRSI
Cross-reference
See IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS. (3) WRITING SYSTEMS.
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ḴAṬṬ-E MIḴI
Cross-reference
See CUNEIFORM SCRIPT.
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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.
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ḴATTĀʾI, ʿALI-AKBAR
Cross-reference
See ḴETTĀʾI, ʿALI-AKBAR (pending).
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KATTĀN
Cross-reference
See LINEN (pending).
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ḴAṬṬĀTI
Cross-reference
See CALLIGRAPHY.
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ḴĀTUN
C. Edmund Bosworth
a title of high-born women in the pre-modern Turkish and Persian worlds.