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ṬĀLEBUF, ʿABD-AL-RAḤIM
Cyrus Masroori
(1834-1911), intellectual and author of several influential works, including Ketāb-e Aḥmad. The fact that the book went through several reprints both inside and outside Iran testifies to its popularity. Its style and design made it a textbook of choice in the modern schools of Tabriz.
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TĀLEŠ DISTRICT
Marcel Bazin
altogether stretches north from the Safidrud, which cuts through the western Alborz mountains in western Gilān, to the the Araxes-Kura plain in the south of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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ṬĀLEŠ DULĀB
Cross-Reference
one of the five traditional Ṭāleš khanates (Ḵamsa-ye Ṭavāleš) in western Gilān.
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TAʿLIM O TARBIAT
Nassereddin Parvin
monthly periodical published by the Ministry of Culture (April 1925-March 1927, April 1934-July 1938).
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TALMUD ii. RABBINIC LITERATURE and MIDDLE PERSIAN TEXTS
Yaakov Elman
Jews and Persians had coexisted in Mesopotamia, mostly peaceably, for some 700 years by the time that the first generation of prominent Babylonian talmudic rabbis was born in the third quarter of the 2nd century.
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TALMUD, PERSIAN ELEMENTS IN
Jacob Neusner
Persian influence on Judaism through the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) is by no means negligible. The Bavli is full of Iranian words and motifs.
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TAMIŠA WALL
Hamid Omrani Rekavandi and Eberhard W. Sauer
an at least 11-km-long Sasanian wall west of present-day Sarkālata village in Gorgān, crossing the coastal corridor at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea.
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TANG-E SARVAK
Ernie Haerinck
(Gorge of the cypresses), an archeological site in eastern Ḵuzestān province, southwestern Iran. It is located in a gorge in the mountainous area approx. 50 km north of Behbahān. At an altitude of ca. 1200 m, it is only reached after a long climb.
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TANNING, RUBBER, AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRIES
Willem Floor
Tanning was an economic activity traditionally practiced all over Iran, not only in the large towns, but also (for local consumption) in small towns and large villages, and it was practiced on a small scale by the nomads.
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TAQIYA
Multiple Authors
dissimulation; the practice, commonly regarded as distinctively Shiʿite, of hiding beliefs or rituals in times of imminent harm to one.