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• SYKES, Ella Constance

  Denis Wright

  (1863-1939), traveler and writer about Iran, sister of Percy M. Sykes.

• SYKES, Percy Molesworth

  Denis Wright

  , Sir (1867-1945), soldier, diplomat, traveler, and writer who wrote extensively on Iran. 

• SYNGUÉ SABUR: PIERRE DE PATIENCE

  FARANGUIS HABIBI

  novella in French by Atiq Rahimi (ʿAtiq Raḥimi; b. Kabul, 1962), the Afghan writer and director.

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• SYRIAC LANGUAGE i. IRANIAN LOANWORDS IN SYRIAC

  Claudia A. Ciancaglini

  Syriac, originally the eastern Aramaic dialect of the city of Edessa, became the most important language spoken and written by Christian communities during the Sasanian era from Egypt and Asia Minor to Syria, Iran, and Mesopotamia.

• SYRIAC LANGUAGE ii. SYRIAC WRITINGS ON PRE-ISLAMIC IRAN

  Phillipe Gignoux

  The Syriac works which provide information about pre-Islamic Iran can be divided into several groups, excluding literary works as such.