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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.

• SATI BIK

  Peter Jackson

  Mongol princess of the Il-Khanid dynasty who reigned for about nine months in 1338, though only in name.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.