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  • VAEΘĀ

    Mahnaz Moazami

    a short Avestan text with Pahlavi translation; each Avestan sentence is followed by its Pahlavi translation and sometimes with additional explanatory glosses.

  • VAḤŠI BĀFQI

    Paul Losensky

    (ca. 1532-1583), Kamāl-al-Din (or Šams-al-Din Moḥammad), Persian poet of the Safavid period, who was born in Bāfq and died in Yazd.

  • VANDEN BERGHE, Louis

    Ernie Haerinck

    (1923-1993), Belgian archeologist who devoted almost all his research to Iran’s history.

  • VARQĀ, ʿALI-MOḤAMMAD

    Iraj Ayman

    (1855-96), poet and an early follower of Bahaism.

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  • VARQĀ, WALI-ALLĀH

    Iraj Ayman

    (1884-1955), one of the leading figures among 20th-century Iranian Bahāʾis.

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  • VATATZES, Vasilios

    Evangelos Venetis

    Greek scholar, merchant, traveler, pioneer explorer, and diplomat.

  • VĀYU

    William W. Malandra

    Wind, Atmosphere, Space,” name of a deity and the natural phenomenon.

  • VAZIRI, ʿAli-Naqi

    Hormoz Farhat

    (b. Tehran, 1887; d., Tehran, 9 September 1979), composer, virtuoso tār player, musical theorist, and educator.

  • VAZIRITABĀR, Ḥosayn-ʿAli

    Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi

    (1906-1958) musician and prominent performer of the qaranei (clarinet). 

  • VENDĪDĀD

    Multiple Authors

    the common name given to the Avestan text widaēwa-dāta-, Pahl. jud-dēw-dād “The Law repudiating the Demons.”

  • VENDĪDĀD i. Survey of the history and contents of the text

    William W. Malandra

    Of the three major divisions of the 21 Nasks of the Sasanian Avesta, the Vendīdād was the last of those called dādīg “dealing with law,” and 19th overall. 

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  • VENDĪDĀD ii. Transmission of the Vīdēvdād in India

    Alberto Cantera

    The number of Pahlavi Vīdēvdād (PV) manuscripts that have been copied is quite high, but their distribution in time is irregular. Among these manuscripts, we have noticed that only a few are dated for certain before the 18th century.

  • VETCH

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿADAS.

  • VETERINARY MEDICINE

    Cross-Reference

    See DĀM-PEZEŠKĪ.

  • VIOLET

    Cross-Reference

    See BANAFŠA.

  • VIOLLET, Henry

    Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

    (b. Paris, 1880; d. Paris, 1955), French archeologist and architect.

  • VIS O RĀMIN

    Dick Davis

    an 11th-century verse romance by Faḵr al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni (s.v. Gorgāni).

  • VISPERAD

    William W. Malandra

    name of a lengthy Avestan text divided into 24 chapters; the name derives from Av. vīspe ratawō meaning “all the ratus.”

  • VISRAMIANI

    Jemshid Giunashvili

    title of the Georgian translation of the Vis o Rāmin, a versified romance by Persian poet Faḵr-al-Din Asʿad Gorgāni.

  • VULLERS, JOHANN AUGUST

    Ludwig Paul

    (1803-1881), German Iranologist and orientalist, whose Persian-Latin dictionary was to win him renown for generations of scholars.

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  • Vāsunak

    music sample

  • V~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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    list of all the figure and plate images in the V entries