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• MASʿUD (III) B. EBRĀHIM

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  recorded on his coins with various other honorifics. He seems to have had generally peaceful relations with his western neighbors, the Great Saljuqs.

• MAS’UD, MOHAMMAD

  Ḥasan Mirʿābedini

  novelist and editor of the controversial and highly popular newspaper Mard-e emruz.

• MASʿUD-E SAʿD-E SALMĀN

  Sunil Sharma

  (b. Lahore 1046-49?; d. 1121-22), Persian poet of the later Ghaznavid period. The first major Indo-Persian poet, Masʿud-e Saʿd-e Salmān is best known for the poetry he wrote in prison and in exile.

• MASʿUDI

  Michael Cooperson

  a tenth-century geographer and historian and an important source of information on pre-Islamic and early Islamic Iran.

• MĀSULA

  Marcel Bazin

  township and district (baḵš) in western Gilān.

• MATHESON, Sylvia Anne

  Yolande Crowe

  Matheson was born Sylvia Anne Terry-Smith in London and trained at Wimbledon Technical College. By the age of 16 she started work as a journalist while attending evening classes at the Wimbledon School of Art. She interviewed celebrities such as Charles Laughton, Compton Mackenzie, and P. G. Wodehouse.

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• MAURICE

  Michael Whitby

  (539-602), Roman emperor, who campaigned in the Balkans (against the Avars) and on the frontier of Sasanian Iran, but gave refuge to Ḵosrow II and helped him to secure the Sasanian throne from Bahrām Čōbin. 

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• MAWDUD B. MASʿUD

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty, recorded on his coins with the honorifics Šehāb-al-Din wa’l-Dawla and Qoṭb-al-Mella.

• MAWLAWI, ʿAbd-al-Raḥim Maʿdumi

  Keith Hitchins

  (1806-1882/83), a leading Kurdish poet of the 19th century who wrote in the Gurāni dialect of southeastern Kurdistan. He benefited from the support of Sufi shaikhs, who were generous patrons of writers and scholars. 

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• MAYMANA, MEYMANA

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  See FĀRYĀB.