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COMMUNISM i. In Persia to 1941
Cosroe Chaqueri
The Persian communist movement was born among Persian immigrant workers in the Baku oilfields. In the years 1323-25/1905-07 some of them had founded Ferqa-ye ejtemāʿīyūn-e ʿāmmīyūn-e Īrān.
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COMMUNISM ii. In Persia from 1941 to 1953
Sepehr Zabih
With the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia and the abdication of Reżā Shah on 25 Šahrīvar 1320 Š./16 September 1941, the climate for resumption of political activities was vastly improved.
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COMMUNISM iii. In Persia after 1953
Torāb Ḥaqšenās
Whereas in the previous period Persian communism had been embodied primarily in the Tudeh party, which followed the ideological and political dicta of the Soviet Union, after the coup d’etat of 1332 Š./1953 it was characterized by ideological and organizational diversity.
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COMMUNISM iv. In Afghanistan
Anthony Arnold
The Afghan Communist party, Ḥezb-e demōkrātīk-e ḵalq-e Afḡānestān was officially founded in 1344 Š./1965, at a time when political parties were illegal in Afghanistan. Two other durable Afghan Marxist-Leninist groups were active in the same general period.
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COMPUTERS in Persia
Moḥammad-Reżā Moḥammadīfar
electronic data-processing equipment, in Persia.
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CONCESSIONS
Willem Floor, Mansoureh Ettehadieh [neẓām māfī]
(emtīāzāt), grants by a state to citizens, aliens, or other states of rights to carry out specific economic activities and of capitulatory rights on its territory.
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CONCOBAR
Cross-Reference
See KANGĀVAR.
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CONFEDERATION OF IRANIAN STUDENTS, NATIONAL UNION
Afshin Matin-Asgari
(Konfederāsīūn-e jahānī-e moḥaṣṣelīn wa dānešjūyān-e īrānī etteḥādīya-ye mellī), an organization purporting to be the political and corporate (ṣenfī) representative of Persian students abroad, as well as in Persia, during the 1960s and 1970s.
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CONFEDERATIONS, TRIBAL
Richard Tapper
tribal groups commonly comprise several levels of organization, from a nomad camp to (sometimes) a nation-state, with different criteria defining membership of groups at each level.
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CONFESSIONS
Jes P. Asmussen
i. In the Zoroastrian faith. ii. In Manicheism.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Žāla Āmūzgār
the custom of conveying congratulations on such happy occasions as the birth of a child, a birthday anniversary, a marriage, a coronation, or a national or religious festival.
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CONIFERAE
Cross-Reference
See DERAḴT.
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CONJUNCTIONS
Cross-Reference
See QERĀN.
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CONON OF ATHENS
Rüdiger Schmitt
(b. before 444 BCE., d. after 392 BCE), a leading Athenian admiral during the Peloponnesian and Corinthian wars.
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CONSERVATION
Cross-Reference
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CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF PERSIAN MONUMENTS
Eugenio Galdieri and Kerāmat-Allāh Afsar
in almost every historical period some restoration of Persian monuments has been undertaken either by state authorities or through the efforts of charitable individuals.
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CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Ahmad Ashraf
a complex of beliefs attributing the course of Persian history and politics to the machinations of hostile foreign powers and secret organizations.
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CONSTANTIUS II
Cross-reference
See Šāpur II.
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CONSTELLATIONS
D. N. MacKenzie
The first and only two constellations to be named in Old Iranian sources are Ursa Major and the Pleiades, in the Younger Avesta. The next possible mentions of constellations are of two kinds, both dating from late Middle Persian times but only actually attested in works or manuscripts from the Islamic period.
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CONSTITUTION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Said Amir Arjomand
In 1979, Persia was declared an Islamic republic. Until then there had been little discussion, outside religious circles, of the conception of welāyat-e faqīh (lit. “mandate of the jurist”) propounded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN
M. Ḥassan Kākaṛ
When Amir ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān Khan (r. 1297-1319/1880-1901) acceded to power, he established a centralized monarchy in Afghanistan for the first time.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION
Multiple Authors
(Enqelāb-e mašrūṭa) of 1323-29/1905-11, during which a parliament and constitutional monarchy were established in Persia.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION i. Intellectual background
Abbas Amanat
The establishment of a constitutional regime in Persia was the chief objective of the Revolution of 1323-29/1905-11.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION ii. Events
Vanessa Martin
After 1308/1890 the Persian government found itself in increasing financial difficulties, as inflation produced a sharp decline in the value of the land tax and the silver qerān lost value against the pound sterling with the rapid fall of international silver prices at the end of the 19th century.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION iii. The Constitution
Said Amir Arjomand
The term for “constitution” in Persia, qānūn-e asāsī (lit. “fundamental law”), was borrowed from the Ottoman empire in the 19th century.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION iv. The aftermath
Mansoureh Ettehadieh
In the decade 1329-39/1911-21, from the Russian ultimatum and the dissolution of the Second Majles until the coup d’etat of 1299 Š./1921, the Constitution was put to a series of crucial tests.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v. Political parties of the constitutional period
Mansoureh Ettehadieh
Political parties were first officially organized after Moḥammad-ʿAlī Shah was forced to abdicate in 1327/1909, at about the time elections for the Second Majles were beginning.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION vi. The press
ʿAlī-Akabr Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
There are no statistics on literacy in Qajar Persia, but it can be conjectured that the literate population was very small. Until the beginning of the Pahlavi era there were people who could “read” the Koran and prayer books, for teaching in religious schools consisted of memorizing koranic passages.
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION vii. The constitutional movement in literature
Sorour Soroudi
“constitutional literature” refers here to literature produced from the late 19th century until 1339=1300 Š./1921, under the impact of aspirations for reform and the constitutional movement.
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CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES in Persian architecture
Wolfram Kleiss
The most frequent building material in Iranian cultural areas has always been mud, which is available everywhere. When wet, it can simply be plastered on walls without shaping. Alternatively, it can be tempered and formed into large blocks with more or less rectangular sides.
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CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INDUSTRY
Willem Floor
In 1933, Iran’s first cement plant, the state-owned company Simān-e Ray (100 tons per day), became operational in Ray. It had only 360 workers in 1936, but after expansion in 1939 to a capacity of 300 tons per day it had 1,000 workers. Its output did not suffice to satisfy domestic demand.
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CONSUMERS AND CONSUMPTION
Cross-Reference
See ECONOMY.
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CONTARINI, AMBROGIO
Filippo Bertotti
(1429-99), Venetian merchant and diplomat, author of a noteworthy report on Persia under the Āq Qoyunlū Uzun Ḥasan.
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CONTI, NICOLO` DE’
Paola Orsatti
(1395-ca. 1469), Venetian merchant who traveled in the east from 1414 until 1438.
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CONTINENTS
Cross-Reference
See KEŠVAR.
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CONTRACTS
Muhammad A. Dandamayev, Mansour Shaki, EIr
(usually ʿaqd), legally enforceable undertakings between two or more consenting parties.
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CONVERSION
Multiple Authors
the act of adopting another religion.
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CONVERSION i. Of Iranians to the Zoroastrian faith
Gherardo Gnoli
Although modern Zoroastrians question whether their religion even allows conversion, Zoroastrianism, as an ethical and essentially monotheistic religion based on a historical figure, originally had pronounced missionary characteristics, as is clear from the extent of its dissemination.
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CONVERSION ii. Of Iranians to Islam
Elton L. Daniel
Iranians were among the very earliest converts to Islam, and their conversion in significant numbers began as soon as the Arab armies reached and overran the Persian plateau.
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CONVERSION iii. To Imami Shiʿism in India
Juan Cole
South Asians adopted Imami, or Twelver, Shiʿism in great numbers, mostly after the Safavid conquest of Persia in the first decade of the 16th century.
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CONVERSION iv. Of Persian Jews to other religions
Amnon Netzer
In the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian periods relations between the Jews and the Persian authorities were friendly, and there is no evidence of forced or voluntary conversion of Jews to Zoroastrianism.
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CONVERSION v. To Babism and the Bahai faith
Juan R. I. Cole
In 1279/1863 the prominent Babi Bahāʾ-Allāh, while in exile in Baghdad, had declared himself to a very small group of close disciples and relatives as the messianic figure (man yoẓheroho ʾllāh) whose advent had been predicted by Sayyed ʿAlī-Moḥammad Šīrāzī, the Bāb.
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CONVERSION vi. To Protestant Christianity in Persia
Paul S. Seto
The conversion of Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Muslims, and Zoroastrians in Persia to Protestantism as the result of missionary activity by foreign societies and national churches is discussed here.
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CONVERSION vii. To the Zoroastrian faith in the modern period
Pargol Saati
Modern Zoroastrians disagree on whether it is permissible for outsiders to enter their religion. Now scattered in small minority communities in Persia, India, Europe, and North America and without a religious hierarchy, the Zoroastrians are governed by councils and high priests whose authority is only local.
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COOKBOOKS
Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar
classical, in Persian; relatively few books in Persian exclusively devoted to the preparation of food are known, even though references to a highly developed cuisine in Persia in premodern times are found in medical, religious, historical, and poetic texts.
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COOKIES
Ṣoḡrā Bāzargān
(kolūča, nān-e kolūča, kolīča) in Persia; in this article the cookies most frequently made in major Persian cities today, both traditional types and those reflecting foreign influence, will be described.
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COOKING
Multiple Authors
i. In ancient Iran. ii. In Pahlavi literature. iii. Principles and ingredients of modern Persian cooking. iv. In Afghanistan.
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COON, CARLETON STEVENS
Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
(b. Wakefield, Massachusetts, 23 June 1904, d. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 4 June 1981), American anthropologist and educator.
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COOPERATIVES
Amir I. Ajami
(šerkat-e taʿāwonī), economic organizations owned jointly by and operated for the benefit of groups of individuals. Such cooperatives were first introduced and recognized in Persia under the Commercial code (Qānūn-e tejārat) of 1303 Š./1924, which provided for both production (tawlīd) and consumer (maṣraf) cooperatives.
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ČOPOQ
Willem Floor
or ČEPOQ, a long-stemmed pipe with a small bowl for smoking tobacco, distinct from the ḡ/qalyān, or water pipe.