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• ḴAZINADĀR

  Willem Floor

  title of the royal treasurer since the early Islamic period.

• KĒD

  NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS

  Pahlavi and Bactrian word with meanings ranging from “soothsayer” to “priest,” probably derived from OIran.

• KÉGL, SÁNDOR

  Miklos Sarkozy

  (b. Szúnyog, Hungary, 1 December 1862; d. Áporka, Hungary, 28 December 1920), Hungarian orientalist, polymath, and bibliophile who devoted a major part of his studies to Persian literature.

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• KELĀRDAŠT

  Cross-reference

  (or Kalārdašt), see KALĀRESTĀQ.

• ḴELʿAT

  Willem Floor

  (Ar. ḵelʿa, pl. ḵelaʿ), term used in Iran, India, Central Asia for gifts, but in particular a robe of honor.

• KELIDAR

  Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar

  a monumental novel of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books published over the period 1978-84 by Maḥmud Dawlatābādi, the noted Iranian novelist and ardent social realist.

• KELIM (GELIM)

  Sumru Belger Krody

  a kind of flat-woven carpet employed by settled and nomadic families for a host of uses, primarily but not exclusively for covering household items and furnishing the interior of dwellings.

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• KEMĀḴ

  Hurivash Ahmadi Dastgerdi and EIr.

  a town and fortress in eastern Anatolia that was often involved in the border wars of the early Islamic period.

• KENT, ROLAND GRUBB

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  American scholar of Indo-European studies, who specialized also in Old Persian studies. He went to Berlin and Munich universities to continue for two years his classical studies, including (apart from the languages) Greek epigraphy, history, and archeology.

• KÉPES, GÉZA

  András Bodrogligeti

  (1909-1989), Hungarian poet and translator of Persian poetry. He was the son of a blacksmith and proud of his origins, claiming that the legacy of his father’s craftsmanship as a skilled artisan.