Encyclopædia Iranica
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NABIL-AL-DAWLA
Guity Etemad
Iranian diplomat and translator of Bahai scriptures.
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NABIL-E AKBAR
Minou Foadi
title of Āqā Moḥammad Qāʾeni, a prominent Bahai author and apologist (1829-92).
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NĀDER SHAH
Ernest Tucker
ruler of Iran, 1736-47. He rose from obscurity to control an empire that briefly stretched across Iran, northern India, and parts of Central Asia, with a reputation as a skilled military commander and with success in battle against numerous opponents, including the Ottomans and the Mughals.
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NAFAR
Pierre Oberling
a tribe of Fārs and the Tehran region. Although of Turkic origin, the Nafar of Fārs have become a mixture of Turkic, Arab, and Lor elements.
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NAJM-AL-SALṬANA
Mansoureh Ettehadieh
a Qajar princess whose life spanned the late Qajar and early Pahlavi eras (b. 1231-32 Š./1853; d. 1311 Š./1932).
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NAJM-E ṮĀNI
Michel M. Mazzaoui
(d. 918/1512), the third holder of the office of wakil-e nafs-e nafis-e Homāyun under Shah Esmāʿil Ṣafawi, the representative of the Shah both in his religious and in his political capacity.
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NAḴJAVĀNI, ḤĀJJ MOḤAMMAD
Hushang Ettehad and EIr
(1880-1962), businessman, scholar, and collector of manuscripts.
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NAḴL
Peter Chelkowski
one of the principal objects related to the mourning rituals commemorating the suffering and martyrdom of Imam Ḥosayn b. ʿAli.
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NAḴŠABI, ŻIĀʾ-AL-DIN
Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl
14th-century Češti mystic and author. Though originally from Naḵšab (or Nasaf, in Transoxiana), his family emigrated to India at the time of Mongol incursions.
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NALÎ
Keith Hitchins
(1797 or 1800-1855 or 1856), Kurdish poet who contributed immensely to making Sorani the literary language of southern Kurdistan, that is, most of present-day Iraq and the neighboring districts in Iran.
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