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KĀMI AḤMED ÇELEBI
Osman G. Özgüdenlī
Ottoman scholar, judge, writer, and translator. He was born in Edirne (his birth date is unknown) and known as Mesnevi-hānzāde (Maṯnawi-ḵvānzāda).
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KĀMI MEHMED-I KARAMĀNI
Osman G. Özgüdenlī
Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and translator. He was born in Karaman (Qaramān) in central Anatolia.
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ḴAMĪS DYNASTY
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See ĀL-E ḴAMĪS.
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KĀMRĀN B. SHAH MAḤMUD
Christine Nöelle-Karimi
Sadōzāy ruler of Herat (r. 1826-42). His career coincided with the waning of Sadōzāy power and the rise of the Moḥammadzāy dynasty in the 1820s.
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KĀMRĀN MIRZĀ
Sunil Sharma
In his Haft eqlim, Aḥmad Amin-Rāzi devotes a long section to Kāmrān Mirzā in which he extols the prince’s bravery, generosity, and piety. The historian Badāʾuni also praises him as a courageous and learned man, renowned as a poet, but who was led to ruin by excessive drinking, while Abu’l-Fażl portrays him as a treacherous ingrate.
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KĀMRĀN MIRZĀ NĀYEB-AL-SALṬANA
Heidi Walcher
(1856-1929), the third surviving son of Nāṣer-al-Din Shah, he was the minister of war and commander of the armed forces, and intermittently governor of Tehran and a number of provinces.
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ḴAMRIYA
Majdoddin Keyvani
(pl. ḵamriyāt), poems with thematic contents chiefly about wine.
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ḴAMSA OF AMIR ḴOSROW
Sunil Sharma
a quintet of poems in the mathnawi form written by Amir Ḵosrow between 1298 and 1302, as a response to Neẓāmi’s immensely popular Panj ganj (Five Treasures).
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ḴAMSA OF JAMĀLI
Paola Orsatti
a suite of five mathnawis, composed in response to the Ḵamsa by Neẓāmi (1141-1209). This Ḵamsa exists in a unique manuscript in the India Office Library, London.
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ḴAMSA OF NEẒĀMI
Domenico Parrello
the quintet of narrative poems for which Neẓāmi Ganjavi (1141-1209) is universally acclaimed.