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  • WĀṢEFI, ZAYN-AL-DIN MAḤMUD

    Keith Hitchins

    (1485-d. 1551-1566), Persian memoirist, historian, and poet.

  • WAṢF

    A. A. Seyed-Gohrab

    a literary term meaning “description;” but it can carry several other connotations, including “quality,” “attribute,” “characterization,” “distinguishing mark,” and “adjective.”

  • WATER

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀB.

  • WATERMILL

    Cross-Reference

    See  ĀSIĀ.

  • WAṬWĀṬ, RAŠID-AL-DIN

    Natalia Chalisova

    bilingual poet, philologist, and prose writer in Persian and Arabic, as well as a high-ranking official of the Khwarazmian court in the 12th century.

  • WEBLOGS

    Alireza Doostdar

    The vast majority of Iranian bloggers write in Persian, although other languages – chief among them English – are also used.

  • WEIGHTS AND MEASURES i. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD

    A. D. H. Bivar

    Evidence for ancient standards is provided by examination of weights surviving from antiquity, and from inspection of certain specimens of ingot currency. There are six surviving, well-preserved Achaemenid weights with inscriptions.

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  • WELLHAUSEN, JULIUS

    Ludmila Hanisch

    scholar of Biblical studies, who primarily gained renown as an Old Testament scholar and Semitist.

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  • WERTIME, Theodore

    Roya Arab

    (b. Chambersburg, Pa., 31 August 1919; d. Chambersburg, 8 April 1982), diplomat and scholar, expert on the history of technology in the ancient Middle East.

  • WESTERGAARD, NIELS LUDVIG

    Rüdiger Schmitt

    (1815-1878), Danish orientalist scholar with special interest in Indology.

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