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• LĀHŪRĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD

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  17th-century Indo-Persian historian and author of the Pādšāh-nāma, the official account of the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān (1037-67/1628-57). See ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD LĀHŪRĪ.

• LAHUTI, Abu’l-Qasem

  Kāmyār ʿĀbedi

  (1887-1957), Marxist poet, political activist, and an important contributor to the modern of poetry of Tajikistan.

• LĀḴ-MAZĀR

  V. A. Livshits

  “Rocky sacred place (?),” name applied to gorges not far from the settlement of Kuč, 29 km southeast of Birjand (q.v.) in Khorasan Province (ostān). 

• LARK

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  See ČAKĀVAK.

• LAŠANI

  Pierre Oberling

  a Turkicized Kurdish tribe in Fārs. The Lašani accompanied Karim Khan Zand to the province in the mid-18th century.

• LAURENS, Jules Joseph Augustin

  Jacqueline Calmard-Compas

  (1825-1901), French artist in drawing, painting, and lithography who depicted Oriental and other subjects.

• LAWḤ

  M. Momen and B. T. Lawson

  (tablet), a term used distinctively in the Bahai writings as part of the title of individual compositions of Bahāʾ-Allāh (q.v.) addressed to individuals or groups of individuals.

• LAYARD, Austen Henry

  John Curtis

  (1817-1894), French archeologist and politician. Layard is chiefly known for his excavations in northern Iraq between 1845 and 1851.

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• LENTIL

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  See ʿADAS.

• LENTZ, OTTO HELMUT WOLFGANG

  Gerd Gropp

  (1900-1986), German Iranologist who specialized in Middle Iranian and New Persian dialects as well as on Iranian religions.

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