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• QARAKHANIDS

  Cross-Reference

  see ILAK-KHANIDS.

• QĀSEMLU

  Carol Prunhuber

  Kurdish political leader, whoas secretary general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), led the Kurdish nationalist struggle for autonomy and democracy in Iran.

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• QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY i. HISTORY

  Pierre Oberling

  Like most present-day tribal confederacies in Persia, the Il-e Qašqā ʾi is a conglomeration of clans of different ethnic origins, Lori, Kurdish, Arab and Turkic.

• QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY ii. LANGUAGE

  Michael Knüppel

  Qašqāʾi is a language of southwestern or Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, spoken in the Iranian provinces of Hamadan and Fārs, especially in the region to the north of Shiraz.

• QAWĀMI, Ḥosyan

  Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi and EIr

  (1909-1989), known also as Fāḵtaʾi, a master vocalist of Persia in the second half of the 20th century.

• QAWL

  Philip G. Kreyenbroek

  a type of poetry that plays a central role in the religious life of the Yezidis. These hymns are chanted to music on solemn religious occasions.

• QĀŻI SAʿID QOMI

  Sajjad H. Rizvi

  , Moḥammad-Saʿid b. Moḥammad-Mofid, Shiʿite philosopher, jurist, and mystic of the Safavid period (b. 1049/1640, d. after 1107/1696).

• QAZI, Mohammad

  Noṣrat-Allāh Żiāʾi

  (1913-1998), noted translator.

• QEPČĀQ

  Peter B. Golden

  a loosely-held union of Turkic tribes (ca. 1030-1237) deriving from the Kimek state and tribes, who came into western and central Eurasian steppes from the east.

• QESHM ISLAND

  Daniel T. Potts

  (Jazira-ye Qešm, Ar. Jazira-al-Ṭawila); the largest island (ca. 122 km long, 18 km wide on average, 1,445 sq km) in the Persian Gulf, about 22 km south of Bandar-e ʿAbbās.