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• SASANIAN WALL PAINTING

  An De Waele

  Murals found on sites within the territory of the Sasanian empire (224- 650 CE) are considered Sasanian. While their main function is decorative, their secondary function can be derived from location, theme, and dimension, and is important because it reflects a world-view.

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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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• 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.

• SAYYED AJALL

  George Lane

  governor of the Dali province in China during the Mongol period.

• SCERIMAN FAMILY

  Sebouh Aslanian and Houri Berberian

  a wealthy Persian-Armenian merchant family.

• SCHEFER, Charles-Henri-Auguste

  Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

  (1820-1898), orientalist and academic administrator, as well as minister plenipotentiary and bibliophile.

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• SCHEIL, Jean-Vincent

  Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

  , Father (1858-1940), French philologist and archeologist.

• SE QAṬRA ḴUN

  SOHILA SAREMI

  short story by Ṣādeq Hedāyat in a collection with the same title.
  

• SEALS AND SEALINGS

  Pierfrancesco Callieri

  IN THE EASTERN IRANIAN LANDS  The bulk of the material known at present is of antiquarian origin and was gathered between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries when European and Russian scholars and collectors turned their attention to these previously unexplored regions.

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• SEBÜKTEGIN

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  a slave commander of the Samanids and the founder of the Ghaznavid dynasty in eastern Afghanistan.