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the ceremonies and symbolic actions used to assert the assumption of rulership and to elicit affirmation of it. i. The Achaemenid period. ii. The Parthian period. iii. The Sasanian period.
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EDUCATION xiv. SPECIAL SCHOOLS
Until 1968 responsibility for children with special educational needs had fallen on the individual schools. In that year the National Organization for Special Education was established as a general directorate under a deputy minister of education.
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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.
