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  • MAHDAVI, Yaḥyā

    Moḥammad Ḵᵛānsāri and EIr

    Mahdavi continued his education at Tehran Teachers College from 1928 until 1931, from which he was among the first to graduate with a bachelor's degree. In 1931, he received a scholarship from the state to continue his education in France until his graduation in 1938, writing his doctoral thesis under André Lanlande and Emile Bréhier.

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  • MAHDI

    Cross-Reference

    “the rightly-guided one”  in Arabic, designation of the descendant of the Prophet who is expected to return to rule the world.

    See in entry ISLAM in IRAN:
    vi. THE CONCEPT OF MAHDI IN SUNNI ISLAM;
    vii. THE CONCEPT OF MAHDI IN TWELVER SHIʿISM;
    viii. THE OCCULTATION OF MAHDI;
    ix. THE DEPUTIES OF MAHDI.

  • MAḤFEL-E RUḤĀNI

    Moojan Momen

    current designation of the Bahai governing councils elected at local and national level.

  • MAHJUB, MOHAMMAD JA’FAR

    Mahmoud Omidsalar

    prominent scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator, university teacher, and one of the founders of the discipline of folklore in Iran.

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  • MAḤJUBI, Morteżā

    Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr

    (1900-1965), composer and pianist,  noted for his use of the piano to perform traditional Iranian music.

  • MAḤJUBI, Reżā

    Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr

    (1898-1954) composer and violinist, brother of Morteżā.

  • MAḤMUD B. SEBÜKTEGIN

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    the first fully independent ruler of the Turkish Ghaznavid dynasty, who reigned (388-421/998-1030) over what had become by his death a vast military empire.

  • MAḤMUD MIRZĀ

    Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

    (b. 1799, d. between 1854 and 1858), fifteenth son of Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah Qajar (r. 1797-1834), calligrapher, poet, and anthologist.

  • MAHMUD, AHMAD

    Saeed Rezaei and Maryam Seyedan

    (1931-2002), Iranian contemporary novelist and short story writer.

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  • MAJALLA-ye JAMʿIYAT-e NESWĀN-e WAṬANḴᵛĀH-e IRĀN

    Nassereddin Parvin

    magazine of the women's association of that name, 1923-26.