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• VAHŠI BĀFQI

  Paul Losensky

  , Kamāl-al-Din (or Šams-al-Din Moḥammad), Persian poet of the Safavid period (b. Bāfq, ca. 1532; d. Yazd, 1583).

• VANDEN BERGHE, Louis

  Ernie Haerinck

  (1923-1993), Belgian archeologist who devoted almost all his research to Iran’s history.

• VATATZES, Vasilios

  Evangelos Venetis

  Greek scholar, merchant, traveler, pioneer explorer, and diplomat.

• VAZIRI, ʿAli-Naqi

  Hormoz Farhat

  (b. Tehran, 1887; d., Tehran, 9 September 1979), composer, virtuoso tār player, musical theorist, and educator.

• VENDĪDĀD

  William W. Malandra

  the common name given the Avestan text widaēwa-dāta-, Pahl. jud-dēw-dād “The Law repudiating the Demons.” Of the three major divisions of the 21 Nasks of the Sasanian Avesta, the Vendīdād was the last of those called dādīg “dealing with law,” and 19th overall. The summary of its contents given in the 9th-century Dēnkard accords closely with the extent of the received text. 

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• VETCH

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿADAS.

• VETERINARY MEDICINE

  Cross-Reference

  See DĀM-PEZEŠKĪ.

• VIOLET

  Cross-Reference

  See BANAFŠA.

• VIOLLET, Henry

  Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

  (b. Paris, 1880; d. Paris, 1955), French archeologist and architect.

• VIS O RĀMIN

  Dick Davis

  an 11th-century verse romance by Faḵr al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni (s.v. Gorgāni).

• V~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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