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• ḴERQA

  Erik S. Ohlander

  term for the tattered cloak, robe, or overshirt traditionally worn by the Sufis as a symbol of wayfaring on the mystical path.

• KEŠ

  Pavel Lurje

  (Kešš, Kašš), an important ancient and medieval city, located in the upper Kaškā-daryā valley, now Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan.

• KEŠAʾI DIALECT

  Habib Borjian

  the dialect spoken in the village of Keša, near Naṭanz, in Isfahan Province.

• Kesāʾi Marvazi

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  (also vocalized Kasāʾi), 10th-century Persian poet.

• ḴEṢĀLI ČELEBI

  Osman G. Özgüdenli

  Ḥosayn, Ottoman poet and writer born in Budapest at an unknown date.  His divān is the only source of information about his life.

• KETĀB AL-ʿĀLEM WA’L-ḠOLĀM

  David Hollenberg

  (The Book of the sage and the youth), a work attributed to the Ismaʿili missionary Jaʿfar b. Manṣur-al-Yaman (d. ca. 960).

• KETĀB AL-EṢLĀḤ

  Shin Nomoto

  an early Ismaʿili work in Arabic by Abu Ḥātem Rāzi (d. 933-34).

• KETĀB AL-FOTUḤ

  ELTON L. DANIEL

  an important early Arabic historical text by Ebn Aʿṯam Kufi (d. 314/926?), which was translated, at least in part, into Persian towards the end of the 6th/12th century.

• KETĀB AL-NAQŻ

  Kazuo Morimoto

  a Twelver Shiʿite polemical work in Persian produced in Ray in the third quarter of the twelfth century by Qazvini Rāzi.

• KETĀB AL-RIĀŻ

  Faquir M. Hunzai

  a book by Ḥamid-al-Din Kermāni (d. after 411/1020), an Ismaʿili missionary, analyzing two other Ismaʿili texts, the Eṣlāḥ of Abu Ḥātem Rāzi (d. after 322/933-4) and the Noṣra of Abu Yaʿqub Sejestāni (d. after 360/970).