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• RĀŠED-AL-DIN SENĀN

  Farhad Daftary

  (1126-1193), one of the most prominent figures in the entire history of the Nezāri Ismaʿilis in Syria. He converted to Ismaʿilism in his youth and went to Alamut to furthur his education on the subject. He played a major role in the regional politics of Syria and succeeded in maintaining the independence of his community under the most adverse circumstances.

• RASHT i. The City

  Christian Bromberger

  city and district in Gilān province, the capital of Gilān and the largest city along the Caspian coast of Iran.

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• RASHT ii. The District

  Marcel Bazin

  the largest distirct in the plain of Gilān and the most populated in the whole province. 

• RAŠN

  William Malandra

  Avestan Rašnu, the deity of the ancient Iranian pantheon who functions as the divine Judge.

• RAŠN YAŠT

  Leon Goldman

  the Middle Persian title given to the twelfth Yašt of the Avesta. It is dedicated to the Zoroastrian deity Rašnu

• RASSEKH, MEHRI

  Cyrus Alai

  Returning to Iran in 1962, Rassekh taught asassistant professor at the University of Tehran Department of Psychology and Education. She was promoted to full professorship and in 1973 was appointed head of that department— the first woman department head in an Iranian university.

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• RASTḴIZ

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (Resurrection) newspaper published 1915-16 in Baghdad a group of Iranian expatriates in Europe, headed by Sayyed Ḥasan Taqizāda.

• RASULID HEXAGLOT

  Peter B. Golden

  a six-language glossary compiled by or prepared for the sixth Rasulid king of Yemen (r. 1363-77).

• RATHINES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  a general of Pharnabazos, the satrap of the Daskylitis (see DASCYLIUM) under Dareios II and Artaxerxes II (see DARIUS iv and ARTAXERXES II).

• RĀVANDI, Qoṭb-al-Din Saʿid

  Etan Kohlberg

  Imami author, traditionist, and jurist (d. Qom, 14 Šawwāl 573/5 April 1178).

• RAWAK VIHARA

  Ulf Jaeger

  a ruined Buddhist stupa and monastery complex located about 40 km northeast of Hotan/Hetian in Xinjiang Province, western China; translated as “high building” or “steep house”.

• RAWLINSON, HENRY ii. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSYRIOLOGY AND IRANIAN STUDIES

  Peter T. Daniels

  His first relevant activity was to copy the trilingual inscriptions of Darius I and Xerxes I at Mount Alvand (Elvend) near Hamadān, in April 1835.

• RAWWADIDS

  Andrew Peacock

  a family of Arab descent that controlled parts of Azerbaijan and Armenia from the late 8th through the 11th centuries.

• RAWŻA-YE TASLIM

  S. Jalal Badakhchani

  title of the most comprehensive work on the Nezāri Ismaʿili theology of the Alamut  period by Naṣir-al-Din Ṭusi, the celebrated polymath who also served as vizier under the Il-khanid Hülegü.

• RAY i. ARCHEOLOGY

  Rocco Rante

  In the late 19th and early 20th century, the site was excavated unscientifically by Western archeologists and local dealers, mostly to search for precious objects; a large proportion of the finds found their way to the black market. At present several museums conserve some specimens from Ray belonging to this antiquarian surge.

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• RĀŻIA ĀZĀD

  Evelin Grassi

  (Roziya Ozod; 1893-1957), Tajik poet and educator.

• RED DEER

  Eskandar Firouz

  Cervus elaphus, in Persian: Marāl and also Gavazn and Gāv-e kuhi. i. Natural history. ii. In Persian art. The red deer ranges from Europe to Northeast Asia, its appearance changing gradually, until, from Central Asia eastward, it becomes quite similar to the North American wapiti.

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• REDARD, GEORGES

  Gerard Fussman

  Swiss scholar of comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages and Iranian dialectology.

• REICHELT, HANS

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Among Reichelt’s publications are a number of studies on the Indo-European languages in general, especially on Greek and Latin, but the focus of his attention were the Old and Middle Iranian languages, more particularly, Avestan and Sogdian studies. All his work is characterized by his philological acumen.

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• RESĀLA-YE MADANIYA

  Sen McGlinn

  a treatise of some 130 pages by Abd-al-Baha, internally dated in 1292/1875, which calls on the Iranian people to ‘awake’ and take the steps necessary to modernize the country.