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MIRŠAKAR, MIRSAID
Keith Hitchins
(1912-1993), Tajik poet, dramatist, and children’s author; People’s Poet of Tajikistan, 1962.
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MIRZA MOḤAMMAD ĀḠĀ JĀN
Cross-Reference
Author of Avīmāq-e Moḡol (publ. 1900), see ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN.
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MITHRA
Multiple Authors
i. Mitra in Old Indian and Mithra in Old Iranian ii. Iconography in Iran and Central Asia iii. in Manicheism
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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.”
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MITHRA ii. ICONOGRAPHY IN IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
Franz Grenet
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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MITHRA iii. IN MANICHEISM
Werner Sundermann
The Iranian Manicheans adopted the name of the Zoroastrian god Mithra (Av. Miθra; Mid. Pers.Mihr)and used it to designate one of their own deities.
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MITHRAISM
Roger Beck
the cult of Mithra as it developed in the West, its origins, its features, and its probable connection with Mithra worship in Iran.
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MITHRIDATES VI
Brian McGing
Eupator Dionysos (r. 120-63 BCE), last king of Pontus, descendant of Iranian nobility who took part in the Persian colonization of Asia Minor. He is noted primarily for his opposition to Rome.
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MOʾAYYAD FI’L-DIN ŠIRĀZI
Verena Klemm
(ca. 1000-87), outstanding and multitalented representative of the Fatimid religious and political mission (daʿwa) in the service of the Caliph/Imam Mostanṣer bi’llāh (r. 1036-94).
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MOʾAYYED AY-ABA
Maryam Kamali
a slave, promoted to to the commander of the army of the Saljuqid king, Sultan Sanjar, who ruled in Nišāpur (r. 1168-74) in his name.