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• MINING IN IRAN ii. MINERAL INDUSTRIES

  Willem Floor

  Commercial exploitation of the known resources, which are mainly located in inaccessible locations, was discouraged by the lack of cost-effective infrastructure.

• MINORSKY, Vladimir Fed’orovich

  C. E. Bosworth

  (1877-1966), outstanding Russian scholar of Persian history, historical geography, literature and culture.

• MIR FENDERESKI

  Sajjad H. Rizvi

  , Sayyed Amir Abu’l-Qāsem b. Mirzā Beg b. Ṣadr-al-Din Moḥammad Ḥosayni Astarābādi, renowned philosopher and mystic during the Safavid revitalization of philosophy (b. 1562-63,  d. 1640).

• MIRʿALĀʾI, Aḥmad

  Jalil Doostkhah

  (1942-1995), editor of three literary magazines and translator of works of Western literature.

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• MIRATH-E MAKTUB

  Ali Mir-Ansari

  a research center in Tehran, focused on editing manuscripts (including those concerned with the history of science), cataloguing Persian and Arabic manuscripts in Iran and the wider Persianate cultural area, and studying related codicological issues.

• MIRDREKVANDI, ʿALI

  Philip G. Kreyenbroek

  nicknamed “Gunga Din,” author of “Irradiant,” a popular epic written in broken English in the mid-20th century.

• MIRZA MOḤAMMAD ĀḠĀ JĀN

  Cross-Reference

  Author of Avīmāq-e Moḡol (publ. 1900), see ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN.

• MITHRA

  Multiple Authors

  i. Mitra in Old Indian and Mithra in Old Iranian   ii. Iconography in Iran and Central Asia   iii. in Manicheism

• MITHRA i. MITRA IN OLD INDIAN AND MITHRA IN OLD IRANIAN

  Hanns-Peter Schmidt

  Indo-Iranian god, with name based on the common noun mitrá “contract” with the connotations of “covenant, agreement, treaty, alliance, promise.”

• MITHRA ii. ICONOGRAPHY IN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA

  Franz Grenet

  There is no known iconography of Mithra in the Achaemenid period. On coins of the Arsacids the seated archer dressed as a Parthian horseman has been interpreted as Mithra. In the Kushan empire Mithra is among the deities most frequently depicted on the coinage, always as a young solar god.

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