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ḴĀNA-YE EDRISIHĀ
Ḵāna-ye Edrisihā is told from the alternating perspectives of four people: Mrs. Edrisi, symbol of a lost aristocracy; her daughter Laqā, trapped in a tangled web of old beliefs, traditions, and customs; her intellectual grandson Vahhāb, living a miserable life in an ocean of books; and Yāvar, the faithful servant, living in past memories.
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ČAŠMA
“spring.” Iran and Afghanistan, as well as wide parts of Central Asia, have a great variety of natural springs. A very general classification divides all springs into (1) those produced by gravity acting on the groundwater, (2) those that have their origins in tectonic volcanic forces within the earth’s crust.
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Fascicle 4 of Volume XVI
The most recent fascicle of the print version of the Encyclopaedia Iranica was published in October of 2018. This installment, Fascicle 4 of Volume XVI, of the EIr continues the development of letter “K” topics. The fascicle completes coverage of titles starting with Keš- and proceeds to titles beginning with Kha-.
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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.
