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MEHRAGĀN
Simone Cristoforetti
an Iranian festival apparently dedicated to the god Miθra/Mehr, occurring also in onomastics and toponymy.
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FESTIVALS
Multiple Authors
This article discusses religious or communal festivals and commemorations, ancient and modern, of diverse communities in Persia and Afghanistan.
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FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM v. HOMAGES TO FERDOWSI
EIr
Ever since the appearance of the Šāh-nāma, Ferdowsī has been held in high esteem, and many poets have referred to him and his work, the best known being Saʿdī’s tribute in the Būstān to “Ferdowsī-ye pāk-zād.”
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CLEARCHUS
Rüdiger Schmitt
(b. ca. 390 or 410 BCE, the latter date based on Memnon’s report of his age as fifty-eight years at his death in 352), tyrant of Pontic Heracleia (modern Ereğli) in 363-52 BCE.
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BARRASĪHĀ-YE TĀRĪḴĪ
N. Parvīn
journal of historical studies of Iran, 1966-78. Some of the articles, particularly those bearing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and descriptive geography, were well researched and original. The journal also published a number of historical documents.
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FESTIVALS ix. Assyrian
WILLIAM PIROYAN and EDEN NABY
The adoption of Christianity by the Assyrians in the latter part of the 1st century led to the harmonization of older community celebrations and commemorations with Christian doctrine as well as the introduction of specifically Christian religious holidays.
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ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ YAZDĪ
P. P. Soucek
Safavid official and poet skilled in calligraphy, killed at the battle of Čālderān in Raǰab 920/August 1514.
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ČŪB BĀZĪ
Robyn C. Friend
a category of folk dance found all over Persia (Hamada) and distinguished from other types of folk dance by the fact that the dancers carry sticks, which they strike together.
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BADĪHA-SARĀʾĪ
F. R. C. Bagley
composition and utterance of something improvised (badīh), usually in verse. Among the Arabs, poetic improvisation was practiced and admired from pre-Islamic times. Among the Iranians, it has been a mark of poetical talent and skill.
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FESTIVALS ii. MANICHEAN
Werner Sundermann
The Manichean calendar of holidays proves independence from that of the Zoroastrians. Even if the heptavalent number of the Manichean Yimkis was correlated to the Zoroastrian gāhānbār and Nowrūz