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• 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.

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

  Nassereddin Parvin

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

• MAJALLA-ye RASMI-e ṮABT

  Nassereddin Parvin

  official journal of the Ministry of Justice from 1928.

• MAJD, Loṭf-Allāh

  Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr

  tār player known for his brilliant virtuosity and distinctive style (1917-1978).

• MAJD-AL-MOLK II

  M. Dabirsiāqi

  , Mirzā Taqi Khan Monši-e Hożur (b. 1278/1861) a high ranking Qajar official and poet with the pen name ʿAbqari.

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• MAJLESI, Moḥammad-Bāqer

  Rainer Brunner

  (b. 1627; d. 1699 or 1700), an eminent Twelver Shiʿite jurist in Safavid Iran (1501-1722) and one of the most important hadith scholars of Twelver Shiʿism.

• MAJLESI, MOḤAMMAD-TAQI

  Rainer Brunner

  b. Maqṣud-ʿAli Eṣfahāni, commonly referred to as Majlesi-ye Awwal, an important Twelver Shiʿite jurist and Hadith scholar of the Aḵbāri school.

• MAKRĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  (also Mokrān) the coastal region of Baluchistan, extending from the Somniani Bay to the northwest of Karachi in the east westwards to the fringes of the region of Bashkardia/Bāšgerd in the southern part of the Sistān and Balučestān province of modern Iran.

• MAKTAB

  Cross-Reference

  See EDUCATION iii. The Traditional Elementary School.

• MĀKŪLĀ DYNASTY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E MĀKŪLĀ.