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SHAH ABBAS I
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Safavid king of Iran (996-1038/1588-1629). Styled "Shah ʿAbbās the Great," he was the third son and successor of Solṭān Moḥammad Shah. See ʿABBĀS I.
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SHAHBAZ, Hasan
Ḡafur Mirzāʾi
From 1942 to 1948 Shahbaz wrote articles for newspapers and magazines, translated his first books, and worked as a translator for foreign companies, and as a contractor for Allied Forces in Iran. In 1949 he became an editor at the News Desk of the Embassy of Pakistan and later joined the American Embassy in Tehran.
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SHAHID SALESS, Sohrab
Pardis Minuchehr
Iranian cinematographer and award-winning filmmaker.
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SHAHRYAR, MOHAMMAD HOSAYN
Kamyār ʿĀbedi and EIr
(1906-1988), prolific poet and the most noted representative of the short-lived Persian romanticism, who also composed poems in Azeri Turkish. Shahryar’s poetry has influenced many contemporary poets.
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SHAHRZAD
Mohammad Tolouei
(Reżā Kamāl, 1898-1937), dramatist and translator who played a key role in introducing European Romanticism to Iran through his loose adaptations of French drama.
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SHAHSEVAN
Richard Tapper
(Šāhsevan), name of a number of tribal groups in various parts of northwestern Iran, notably in the Moḡān and Ardabil districts of eastern Azerbaijan and in the Ḵaraqān and Ḵamsa districts between Zanjān and Qazvin.
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SHAMANISM
Philippe Gignoux
AND ITS CONNECTION TO IRAN. Archeological and ethnological sources in Iran do not lead to confirmation of the existence of shamanic practices there, whether ancient or modern. Yet some scholars have tried to find traces of them.
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SHAMI STATUE
Trudy S. Kawami
from Šāmi, Khuzestan, the only intact monumental cast bronze of the Parthian period.
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SHATT AL-ARAB
D. T. Potts
(ŠAṬṬ AL-ʿARAB), combined effluent of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
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SHAYKHISM
Denis Hermann
(ŠAYḴIYA), a school of Twelver Shiʿism whose founding is attributed to Shaikh Aḥmad Aḥsāʾi (d. 1241/1826).
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