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SATASPES
Rüdiger Schmitt
an Achaemenid, the son of a certain Teaspis and from his mother’s side a nephew of King Darius I.
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SATI BIK
Peter Jackson
Mongol princess of the Il-Khanid dynasty who reigned for about nine months in 1338, though only in name.
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SATTĀR KHAN
Anja Pistor-Hatam
(1868-1914), defender of Tabriz during the Qajar “Lesser Autocracy” in 1908-09—an example of a mythical personage, and as a long-lasting focal point of collective memory and identity, whose symbolic function has an impact until this very day.
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SAVDO ABDULQODIRHOJAI
Keith Hitchins
(1823-24-1873), Tajik lyric and satirical poet.
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ṢAWMAʿA SARĀ
Marcel Bazin
city and district in western Gilān. The city is located at lat 37°17′ N, long 29°19′ E, in the Fumanāt plain, at a distance of 25 km to the west of Rašt, the center of the province.
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ŠĀYEST NĒ ŠĀYEST
Fereydun Vahman
(Proper and Improper), a work in the Middle Persian/Pahlavi language dealing with Zoroastrian jurisprudence and containing miscellaneous laws concerning sins, purity, and impurity.
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SAYFI QAZVINI
Kioumars Ghereghlou
(1481-1555), a Persian historian best known for his Lobb al-tawāriḵ, a chronicle dealing with the dynastic history of Iran from ancient times until the late 1540s.
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ŠĀYGĀN, ʿALI
Hamid Hosseini
(ALI SHAYEGAN; b. Shiraz, 1903; d. Westwood, New Jersey, 10 May 1981), law scholar, author, academician, and one of the closest associates of the prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
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ŠAYḴ-ʿALI KHAN ZANGANA
Rudi Matthee
(1611 or 1613-1689), grand vizier for twenty years under Shah Solaymān I Ṣafawi.
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SAYR WA SOLUK
S. J. Badakhchani
title of the spiritual autobiography of Naṣir-al-Din Ṭusi (1201-74), celebrated polymath and vizier of under the Il-khanid.