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ʿALĀʾ-AL-SALṬANA
prime minister and diplomat of the late Qajar period (d. 1918). Upon the proclamation of the Constitution in 1907, he was appointed minister of foreign affairs. During the post-constitutional period he was a member of most cabinets, until in 1913 he was appointed prime minister.
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TĀJ-al-SALṬANA
(1884-1936), one of the best known daughters of the Qajar king Nāṣer-al-Din Shah (r. 1848-96), due to her memoirs (Ḵāterāt), written in 1914, which were first partially published in 1969 and whose authenticity has been disputed.
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Fascicle 3 of Volume XVI
The most recent fascicle in the print edition of Encyclopædia Iranica was published in June 2017. This fascicle continues the development of letter “K” topics. It begins with the concluding section of the entry on the Hungarian scholar SÁNDOR KÉGL and ends with the beginning of the entry on the KEŠAʾI DIALECT. Major articles in this fascicle include a series of entries related to the cities of KERMAN and KERMANSHAH. Several of these articles are already available on this website and others will be added soon.
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Zoroastrianism
A Collection of Articles from the Encyclopædia Iranica
Edited by Mahnaz Moazami, 2-volume set, Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation: New York, NY, 2016
Zoroastrian theology, cosmology and cosmogony, history of the faith, its rituals and ceremonies, Avestan and Middle Persian texts, festivals such as Nowruz, Mehregan, and Sada, and a host of other topics, hitherto dispersed amidst other entries in their alphabetical sequence in the Encyclopædia Iranica, are gathered together here in a 2-volume set.
