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• ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN

  Habib Borjian and Evelin Grassi

  (1925-2012), Tajik scholar and literary critic. From the late 1980s, in the milieu of glasnost, he cultivated an interest in the theory of modern Tajik culture, and he published copiously on the issues of the history and contemporary conditions of Tajik language, literature, and culture during the independence period after 1991.

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• SOLAYMĀN

  Peter Jackson

  Il-Khan of Iran (1339-1344), a great-grandson of Hülegü’s third son Yošmut.

• SOLAYMĀN I

  Rudi Matthee

  (1648-1694), Shah, the eighth king of the Safavid dynasty and the oldest son of Shah ʿAbbās II. Until his enthronement, he grew up secluded in the royal harem and his first language was Turkish.

• SOLAYMĀNI, Ātajān Peyrow

  Keith Hitchins

  (1899-1933), Tajik poet who blended the classical traditions of Tajik-Persian verse with the social themes of the new Soviet Central Asia of the 1920s and early 1930s.

• SOLṬĀN ḤOSAYN

  Rudi Matthee

  (1668-1727), the ninth and last Safavid king, the eldest son of Shah Solaymān I. Like most Safavid rulers, he was most comfortable speaking Turkish, although he appears to have learned Persian as well.

• SOLṬĀN WALAD

  Cross-Reference

  13th-14th-century Sufi shaikh and poet, son and eventual successor of Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Din Rumi(Mawlawi). See BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN SOLṬĀN WALAD.

• SOPURḠĀN

  David G. Malick

  Neo-Aramaic Sipūrḡān, Assyrian village in the Urmia plain, situated on the Nazlu river, 26 km northeast of the city of Urmia.

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• SORḴA

  Habib Borjian

  (locally: Sur), township and sub-province in Semnān Province.

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• SORUSHIAN, Jamshid

  Carlo G. Cereti

  (1914-1999), a Zoroastrian community leader and author.

• SOUR CHERRY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀLBĀLŪ.