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• MOḤTĀJ DYNASTY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E MOḤTĀJ.

• MOḤTAŠAM KĀŠĀNI

  Paul Losensky

  (1528/29-1588), Šams-al-Šoʿarā Kamāl-al-Din, Persian poet of the Safavid period who was born and died in Kashan.

• MOʿIN-AL-DIN NAṬANZI

  D. Aigle

  early 15th-century historian, author of the Montaḵab al-tavāriḵ, a general chronicle on dynastic history of Iran in the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, dedicated to the Timurid ruler Šāhroḵ (1405-47).

• MOʿIN-E MOṢAVVER

  Robert Eng

  (b. ca.1610-15; d. ca 1693), Safavid manuscript and album painter, arguably the most prominent artist of the second half of the 17th century.

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• MOʿJEZ ŠABESTARI

  Hasan Javadi

  (1874-1934), a satirical poet in Azerbaijani, fairly unknown during his lifetime. A social problem is addressed in every one of his poems.

• MOJIR-AL-DIN BAYLAQĀNI

  Anna Livia Beelaert

  Persian poet of the 12th century, born in Baylaqān in Arrān (now part of the Republic of Azerbaijan); and a contemporary of Khāqāni Šervāni, Aṯir-al-Din Aḵsikati, and Jamāl-al-Din Eṣfahāni.

• MOJMAL AL-TAWĀRIḴ WA’L-QEṢAṢ

  Siegfried Weber and Dagmar Riedel

  an anonymous chronicle from the 12th century in the Persian tradition of literary historiography. The work concentrates on the Persian rulers before the advent of Islam, the Muslim conquests, and events related to Hamadān, indicating that the work probably originated there.

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• MOJTAHED

  Cross-Reference

  “jurist” in Arabic. For the religious-legal sciences in Shiism, see EJTEHĀD.

• MOḴAMMESA

  Mushegh Asatryan

  an early extremist Shiʿite (ḡolāt) sect who divinized five members (ahl al-kesāʾ/Āl-e ʿabā “the family of the cloak”) of the Prophet Moḥammad’s family.

• MOKRI TRIBE

  Pierre Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of western Iranian Azerbaijan.