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• QEṢṢA-YE SANJĀN

  Cross-Reference

  an account of the early years of Zoroastrian settlers on the Indian subcontinent. See PARSI COMMUNITIES i. Early History.

• QODDUS

  Nosrat Mohammad-Hosseini

  (1822-1849), spiritual title of Moḥammad-ʿAli Bārforuši, a prominent Bābi figure.

• QODSI MAŠHADI

  Paul Losensky

  , ḤĀJI MOḤAMMAD JĀN (b. Mashad, ca. 1582; d. Lahore, 1646), Persian poet of the first half of the 17th century.

• QOFS

  C. E. Bosworth

  the Arabised form of Kufiči, lit. “mountain dweller,” the name of a people of southeastern Iran found in the Islamic historians and geographers of the 10th-11th centuries.

• Qohrud i. Historical Geography

  Habib Borjian

  mountainous river, village, and district, with attractive architectural monuments; on a caravan station from Kashan to Isfahan.

• QOM i. History to the Safavid Period

  Andreas Drechsler

  The present town of Qom in Central Iran dates back to ancient times. Its pre-Islamic history can be partially documented.

• QOM LAKE

  E. Ehlers

  (DARYĀČA-ye QOM, or Qom Basin), also called Daryāča-ye Sāva, one of the interior watersheds in northwestern Persia.

• QOŠUN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  organ of the Iranian armed forces (qošun, arteš), published in Tehran, 1922-35,  continued as Arteš to 1937.

• QOṬB-AL-DIN ḤAYDAR ZĀVI

  Tahsin Yazici

  a famous Sufi of Turkish origin.

• QOṬB-AL-DIN ŠIRĀZI

  Sayyed ʿAbd-Allāh Anwār

  Persian polymath, Sufi, and poet (b. Shiraz, October 1236; d. Tabriz, 7 February 1311).