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• ṬABAQĀT-E NĀṢERI

  C. E. Bosworth

  an extensive general history composed in Persian by  b. Serāj-al-Din Jowzjāni, who for the first part of his career lived in Ḡur under the Ghurid sultans and latterly in Muslim India under the Moʿezzi or Šamsi Delhi sultans.

• TABRIZ x. MONUMENTS x(1). The Blue Mosque

  Sandra Aube

  (Pers. Masjed-e kabud), also known as Masjed-e moẓaffariya, built during the rule of the Qarā Qoyunlu dynasty (1351-1469) and completed in 1465. The extant tilework documents artistic connections with contemporary architecture in Timurid Khorasan and in the Ottoman Empire.

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• TADAYYON, Sayyed Moḥammad Birjandi

  Hormoz Davarpanah

  (b. Birjand, 1881; d. United States, December 1951), early 20th-century educationist and politician.

• TAḎKERA-YE NAṢRĀBĀDI

  MAHMOUD FOTOOHI

  a compilation of short biographical notices on some one thousand poets of the Safavid period.

• TAḎKERAT al-AWLIĀʾ

  Mohammad Esteʿlami

  (Saints’ Lives), a hagiographic account of the sayings and miraculous deeds (karāmāts) of eminent sufis and other religious figures from the early Islamic centuries.

• TAḎKERAT al-MOLUK

  M. Ismail Marcinkowski

  (Memorial for kings), Persian manual from the transitional period between the collapse of the Safavid empire at the end of the reign of Shah Solṭān Ḥosayn (r. 1694-1722) and the early Afghan period in Persia.

• TAFAŻŻOLI, AḤMAD

  Philippe Gignoux

  (1937-1997), a prominent scholar and philologist in the field of Middle Iranian studies.

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• TAFT

  EIr, based on an article submitted by Ali Modarres

  town and district in Yazd province.

• ṬAHMĀSP I

  Colin P. Mitchell

  (1514-1576), second ruler of the Safavid dynasty. His 52-year reign was the longest of all Safavid rulers.

• TĀJ AL-SALĀṬIN

  M. Ismail Marcinkowski

  a book in the genre of Mirror for Princes written in Malay by Boḵāri Jawhari (fl. early 17th cent.).