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• MĀR ABĀ

  Manfred Hutter

  Zoroastrian convert to Christianity, catholicos for the Church of the East, 540-52 CE.

• MĀR MĀRI

  Florence Jullien

  the Christian apostle, considered as the first missionary in the Arsacid Empire.

• MARĀ BEBUS

  Morteza Hosayni Dehkordi and EIr.

  (Kiss me), the title of one of the most popular songs (taṣnif) of mid-twentieth century Iran.

• MARATHI LANGUAGE, PERSIAN ELEMENTS IN

  S. H. Qasemi and EIr

  the southernmost Indo-Aryan language, is spoken by more than 40 million speakers, including inhabitants of Bombay and the state of Maharashtra (Mahāraštrā) in west-central India.

• MARD-E ĀZĀD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  a daily newspaper published in Tehran  to support Reżā Khan (the future Reza Shah) in his bid for power, 1923.

• MARD-e EMRUZ

  Ḥasan Mirʿābedini

  a controversial and highly popular newspaper published weekly in Tehran, with frequent interruptions, from 19 August 1942 to 14 February 1947, by Mohammad Mas’ud.

• MARDONIUS

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Name of several Persians in Achaemenid times, as OPers. M-r-d^u-u-n-i-y- /Mr̥duniya-/ (DB 4.84) is rendered in Greek (Mardónios) and Latin (Mardonius).

• MARICQ, André

  Philippe Gignoux

  From 1953 to the summer of 1954, Maricq conducted extensive field research in the Near East. His aimed to collect casts of all seal collections in the Near East, to obtain impressions of the ŠKZ, and to survey a site in Commagene that Ernest Honigmann identified as the convent of the Nestorian bishop Barṣauma.

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• MARIE ALEXANDRA VICTORIA

  Della L. Marcus

  (1875-1938), queen consort of Ferdinand I, king of Romania; she developed an understanding and sympathy for the Bahai faith.

• MARITIME TRADE i. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD

  Daniel T. Potts

  In comparison with Mesopotamia, Persia has far less proof that maritime trade was an important factor in her ancient economy.