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• 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

  (1877 -1939), Austrian scholar of Indo-European and Iranian studies.

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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.

• REŻWĀNŠAHR

  Marcel Bazin

  small town and sub-provencial unit (šahrestān) in the western part of Gilān Province.

• RHETORICAL FIGURES

  Natalia Chalisova

  devices of embellishment, tropes, and figures considered as an intrinsic part of literary expression in medieval Persia.

• RIAHI, MOHAMMAD AMIN

  Moḥammad Esteʿlāmi

  prominent scholar of Persian classical literature, statesman, and professor of Persian language and literature.

• RICE

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• RISHĀR KHAN

  Shireen Mahdavi

  (Rišār Khan), the Persian name of Jules Richard (1816-1891), a Frenchman in the service of Persian government as a language instructor at Dār al-Fonun College, court photographer, and translator.  

• RITTER, Hellmut

  Josef van Ess

  German scholar of Islamic studies.

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