Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar
- FARMAYAN, HAFEZ
FARMAYAN, HAFEZ (Ḥāfeẓ Farmānfarmāʾiān; b. Tehran, 7 October 1927; d. Austin, Texas, 4 July 2015; Figure 1), prominent historian of…
- DAMPOḴT(AK)
DAMPOḴT(AK), DAMĪ, terms referring to rice cooked in a single pot (cf. polow and čelow; see čelow-kabāb). Dampoḵt or damī…
- COOKBOOKS
COOKBOOKS, classical, in Persian. Relatively few books in Persian exclusively devoted to the preparation of food are known, even though…
- BŪRĀNĪ
BŪRĀNĪ (rarely būlānī), generic term for a category of Iranian dishes, now usually prepared with yogurt and cooked vegetables and…
- BOZBĀŠ
BOZBĀŠ, Azeri Turkish name for an Iranian dish usually called ābgūšt-e sabzī (green vegetable stew; Ghanoonparvar, pp. 102-03; see ābguᵛšt);…
- GAZ (1) ii. CANDY
ii. CANDY The candy gaz, made mainly in Isfahan, is prepared from high-quality gaz-angobīn from Ḵᵛānsār. To prepare gaz, gaz-angobīn…
- DŪḠ
DŪḠ, beverage made of yogurt and plain or carbonated water and often served chilled as a refreshing summer drink or…
- DRAMA
DRAMA, in formal Western terms a relatively new art form in Persia, though various types of dramatic performance, including religious…
- DONBA
DONBA, the fatty part of the sheep’s tail, traditionally used as a cooking fat, sometimes in melted form, or as…
- DOLMA
DOLMA (or dūlma), Turkish term (Doerfer, III, pp. 203-04) for stuffed vegetable or fruit dishes common in the Middle East…
- KOMĀJ
Figure 1. Photograph of Komāj. KOMĀJ, a type of sweetened flat bread or pie, which originally camel drivers baked in…
- ḤEJĀZI, MOḤAMMAD MOṬIʿ-AL-DAWLA
ḤEJĀZI, MOḤAMMAD MOṬIʿ-AL-DAWLA, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, translator, a government official and a member of the Senate (b. Tehran…
- KELIDAR
KELIDAR, a monumental novel of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books published over the period…
- ČAŠMHĀYAŠ
ČAŠMHĀYAŠ (1952; tr. by John O’Kane as Her Eyes, 1989), a novel considered by many critics as the most important…
- JEN-NĀMA
JEN-NĀMA (The book of jinn, Sweden, 1998), the last novel—and arguably the magnum opus—of Hushang Golshiri, the eminent novelist and literary…
- KELIDAR [2011]
KELIDAR (1978-1984), a monumental novel of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books by Maḥmud Dawlatābādi…
- CHUBAK, Sadeq
Figure 1. Photography of Sadeq Chubak. CHUBAK, Sadeq (Ṣādeq Čubak, b. Bušehr, 5 August 1916; d. Berkeley, Calif., 3 July…