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  • MEYBODI, ABU'L-FAŻL RAŠID-AL-DIN

    Annabel Keeler

    (fl. early 12th cent.), Sunni scholar, mystic and author of a monumental Persian Sufi commentary on the Qurʾān.

  • MEYMA i. The District

    Habib Borjian

    The district rests on a high plain on the western foothills of the Kargas range, which separates Meyma from Naṭanz on the east.

  • MEYMA ii. The Dialect

    Habib Borjian

    district is at the heart of the area where the Central dialects are spoken.

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  • MEYMANA

    Cross-Reference

    City of northwestern Afghanistan. See FĀRYĀB.

  • MICHAEL THE SYRIAN

    Florence Jullien

    Jacobite patriarch of Antioch (1166-99), who wrote a universal chronicle (from the Creation until 1195) in Syriac. It includes much information concerning the history of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran—for instance, persecutions under the Sasanian king Ḵosrow II and the 6th-century wars between the Romans and the Persians.

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  • MICROCOSM and MACROCOSM

    Philippe Gignoux

    in pre-Islamic Iranian thought: the theory of the correspondence between the different parts of the human being and those of the cosmos.

  • MIDDLE PERSIAN LITERATURE i. PAHLAVI LITERATURE

    Carlo G. Cereti

    the writings of the Zoroastrians in the Middle Persian language and Book Pahlavi script, which were compiled in the 9th and the 10th centuries CE.

  • MIHR YAŠT

    Almut Hintze

    Middle Persian form of the name of the tenth of the 21 Yašts of the Avesta; It constituted the seventh Fargard of the Avestan Bagān Yašt Nask, of which a Pahlavi summary survives in the Dēnkard. The Mihr Yašt is the hymn of the sixteenth day of the 30-day month of the Zoroastrian cal­endar.

  • MĪKĀL DYNASTY

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀL-E MĪKĀL.

  • MILĀN

    Pierre Oberling

    a Kurdish tribe in western Persian Azerbaijan.