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MEHR-NARSEH
Touraj Daryaee
The grand vizier (Mid. Pers. wuzurg framādār) during the reigns of the Sasanian kings Yazdgerd I (r. 399-421 CE), Bahrām V (r. 421-39), Yazdgerd II (r. 439-57), and Pērōz (r. 459-84).
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MEHRAGĀN
Simone Cristoforetti
an Iranian festival apparently dedicated to the god Miθra/Mehr, occurring also in onomastics and toponymy.
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MEHRAJĀN
Habib Borjian
oasis and the seat of Naḵlestān district in Ḵur-Biābānak sub-province, Isfahan province.
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MEIER, FRITZ
Gudrun Schubert
In 1937, Meier went for the first time to Iran, where he visited Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz. In 1938, he was awarded a prize at the University of Basel for his research on the Persian mystic Najm-al-Din Kobrā, and in the same year returned to Istanbul to continue his study of manuscripts of Islamic mystical texts.
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MEILLET, (PAUL JULES) ANTOINE
Rüdiger Schmitt
Meillet called himself a comparatist, and probably he would have called himself a born comparatist. At the same time, he was an acknowledged philologist with a good grounding not only in Greek and Latin, but also in less common languages such as Armenian and Old Church Slavic.
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MELZER, UTO
Nosratollah Rastegar
(1881-1961), teacher, author, and independent scholar.
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MEM-Ê ALAN
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
(Kurdish romance), probably the best-known Kurdish tale, and the one most often regarded as representative of Kurdish verbal art generally.
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MENASCE, JEAN PIERRE DE
Philippe Gignoux
(1902-1973), an eminent Iranist and historian of religions. His masterpiece was the explication of the Dēnkard, book III, a text of philosophical and theological content.
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MENHĀJ-e SERĀJ
C. E. Bosworth
author of a general history in Persian valuable as a first-hand source for the history of the Ghurids, the Šamsi Delhi Sultans, and the irruption of the Mongols into the eastern Islamic lands.
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MENOSTANES
Rüdiger Schmitt
Achaemenid prince, son of Artaxerxes I’s brother Artarios, who was satrap of Babylon; he was a “eunuch” at Artaxerxes’ court and during the troubles about the succession after Artaxerxes’ death in 424/23 BCE.