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• WAKIL-AL-RAʿĀYĀ

  John Perry

  regnal title assumed by Karim Khan Zand (r. 1164-93/1751-79) after he established himself at Shiraz in 1765. It is recorded in variants wakil-al-raʿiya, wakil-e raʿiat, and wakil-al-ḵalāʾeq, all meaning “deputy of the people.”

• WAKIL-al-RAʿĀYĀ, Ḥāji Shaikh Taqi Irāni

  John R. Perry

  (1868-1939), a prominent merchant and the Majles deputy of Hamadān, who, in October 1906, was the first provincial deputy to take his place in the First Majles (parliament) to be established after the Constitutional Revolution.

• WALDMAN, Marilyn

  Dick Davis

  (b. Dallas, Texas, April 13th 1943-d. Columbus, Ohio, July 8th, 1996), scholar of Islamic history.

• WAR KABUD

  Bruno Overlaet

  an archeological site to the north of Čavār in Ilām Province (Pošt-e kuh, Lorestān). Two hundred and three individual tombs of a large plundered graveyard (more than 1,000 tombs estimated to have been plundered) were excavated in 1965 and 1966. They all date to the Iron Age III (ca. 800/750-600 BCE).

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• WARŠTMĀNSR NASK

  Cross-Reference

  See SŪDGAR NASK AND WARŠTMĀNSR NASK.

• 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.

• 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.

• WAZIRITABĀR, Ḥosayn-ʿAli

  Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi

  (1906-1958) musician and prominent performer of the qaranei (clarinet). 

• WEBLOGS

  Alireza Doostdar

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