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• OSTANES

  Morton Smith

  legendary mage in classical and medieval literature.

• OSTOVĀ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  rural district (rostāq) of northern Khorasan, considered in medieval Islamic times to be an administrative dependency of Nišāpur.

• OTANES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Greek form (Otánēs) of the name OPers. Utāna(DB IV 83 u-t-a-n, rendered as Elam. Hu-ud-da-na, Bab. Ú-mi-it-ta-na-na-ʾ), which often is interpreted as “having good descendants”.

• ʿOTBI

  C. E. Bosworth

  the family name of two viziers of the Samanids of Transoxiana and Khorasan.

• ʿOTBI, ABU NAṢR MOḤAMMED

  Ali Anooshahr

  (ca. 961-1036 or 1040), secretary, courtier, and author of the Arabic al-Kitāb al-Yamini, an important dynastic history of the Ghaznavids.

• OTRĀR

  C. E. Bosworth

  medieval town of Transoxania, in a rural district (rostāq) of the middle Jaxartes River (Syr Darya), apparently known in early Islamic times as Fārāb/Pārāb/Bārāb.

• OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS i. UNDER SULTAN SELIM I AND SHAH ESMĀIL I

  Osman G. Özgüdenli

   The dynamics of Ottoman-Safavid relations during these almost contemporaneous reigns (1512-20 and 1501-24, respectively) are closely connected with the general socio-political and socio-religious conditions in Anatolia, Persia, and the border regions between the two empires since the second half of the 15th century.

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• OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS ii. AFSHARID AND ZAND PERIODS

  Ernest Tucker

   At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Ottoman conflicts with European powers overshadowed relations with the Safavids.

• OUPHARIZES

  R. N. Frye

  (Greek name or appellative Wahriz), general of cavalry in the time of Ḵosrow I.

• OUSELEY, Gore

  Peter Avery and EIr

  (1770-1884), entrepreneur, diplomat, and orientalist.