Search Results for “Bahar%20journal”

• BAHĀR-E KESRĀ

  M. G. Morony

  “The spring of Ḵosrow,” one of the names of a huge, late Sasanian royal carpet measuring 60 cubits (araš, ḏerāʿ) square (ca. 27 m x 27 m). It was divided among the conquering Muslims after Madāʾen was captured in 637.

• FISH iii. IN PRE-ISLAMIC PERSIAN LORE

  Hušang Aʿlam

  The Bundahišn contains interesting pseudo-scientific, mythical, and sometimes inconsistent information about fishes.

• BAŠŠĀR-E MARḠAZĪ

  Z. Safa

  a Persian poet of the 10th century, apparently from Marv in Khorasan.

• FARĪBORZ

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  son of Key Kāvūs.

• BAHĀR (1)

  Ḡ.-Ḥ. Yūsofī

  a Persian literary, scientific, political, and social-affairs monthly, 1910-11, 1921-22. Bahār represented a departure from traditional Persian journalism; readers found its willingness to discuss contemporary literature and literary criticism a refreshing change.

• BAHĀR (2)

  Esmāʿil Jassim

  a newspaper founded by Shaikh Aḥmad Tehrāni (d. 1957), known as Aḥmad Bahār, in 1917, in Mašhad.

• DĀNEŠKADA

  Nassereddin Parvin

  a monthly literary journal published from April 1918 to April 1919 in Tehran by the distinguished poet, literary critic, and scholar Moḥammad-Taqi Malek-al-Šoʿarāʾ Bahār, considered the leading Persian literary figure of his time.

• FARĀMARZ

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  son of Iran’s national hero Rostam, and himself a renowned hero of the Iranian national epic whose adventures were very popular, especially during the 10th and 11th centuries.

• GANJ-E BĀDĀVARD

  Mahmoud Omidsalar

  (the treasure brought by the wind), name of one of the eight treasures of the Sasanian Ḵosrow II Parvēz (r. 591-628 C.E.) according to most Persian sources.

• KAYĀNIĀN xiii. Synchronism of the Kayanids and Near Eastern History

  Prods Oktor Skjærvø

  The desire of the medieval historians to fit all the ancient narratives into one and the same chronological description of world history from the creation led them to coordinate the Biblical, Classical, and Iranian sources.

• ĒRĀN-ŠĀD-KAWĀD

  Rika Gyselen

  name of a Sasanian town occurring in post-Sasanian sources only.

• ṢADĀ-YE EṢFAHĀN

  Nassereddin Parvin

  weekly newspaper published in Isfahan (6 March 1921 to April/May 1944, with lengthy interruptions). 

• ABU’L-MOʾAYYAD BALḴĪ

  G. Lazard

  An early Persian poet and writer of the Samanid period, whose works have almost entirely disappeared.

• KĀŠEF ŠIRĀZI

  J. T . P. de Bruijn

  Persian writer on ethics and poet of the Safavid period (b. Karbalā, ca. 1592; d. Ray, ca. 1653). 

• DĀRĀ(B) (1)

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  or DĀRĀB, the name of two kings of the legendary Kayanid dynasty.

• BĀZRANGĪ

  Richard N. Frye

  the family name of a dynasty of petty rulers in Fārs overthrown during the rise of the Sasanians.

• AMĪRAK BALʿAMĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  name given to ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD, vizier of the Samanids.

• ʿENĀYAT-ALLĀH KANBO

  Iqtidar Husain Siddiqi

  (b. Burhanpur, 31 August 1608; d. Delhi, 23 September 1671), Sufi and scholar, descendant of an old respected Lahore family that had converted to Islam in Punjab.

• DEŽ-E GONBADĀN

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  lit. "fortress of Gonbadān"; a fortress where the Iranian hero Esfandīār, son of the Kayānian king Goštāsb, was imprisoned.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MARVAZĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  Sufi, jurist, and traditionist, one of the first poets to write in New Persian. 

• DERĀZ-DAST

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  having long hands.

• ḤĀJI FIRUZ

  Mahmoud Omidsalar

  a prominent type of traditional folk entertainer, who appears as a street performer in the days preceding Nowruz. The Ḥāji Firuz entertains passers-by by singing traditional songs and dancing and playing his tambourine for a few coins.

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• GOL-E ZARD

  Nassereddin Parvin

  literary, socio-satirical newspaper, published 1918-1924.

• DEŽ-E RŪYĪN

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  or Rūyīn-dež, lit. "brazen fortress"; castle belonging to the Turanian king Arjāsb and conquered by Esfandīār, son of the Kayanid king Goštāsb.

• JĀN MOḤAMMAD KHAN

  Bāqer ʿĀqeli

  (1886-1951), AMIR ʿALĀʾI, brigadier general and commander of Khorasan army during the early Reżā Shah period, noted for his ruthlessness but eventually undone due to a mutiny of unpaid troops.

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• DABESTĀN JOURNAL

  Nassereddin Parvin

  (“school”), Persian monthly cultural journal published in Mašhad, 1922-27. 

• HOMĀY ČEHRZĀD

  Jalil Doostkhah

  according to Iranian traditional history, a Kayānid queen; she was daughter, wife, and successor to the throne of Bahman, son of Esfandiār.

• ʿAJĀʾEB AL-DONYĀ

  L. P. Smirnova

  (“Wonders of the world” or “Wonderful things”), title of a Persian geography.

• DARGĀHĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  (b. Zanjān, 1899, d. Tehran, 1952), first chief of the state police under Reżā Shah.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ BALḴĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  author of a Šāh-nāma, according to Bīrūnī (Āṯār al-bāqīa, pp. 99f.).

• BĪDERAFŠ

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  in the traditional history, a Turanian hero of the army of Arjāsp.

• MORḠ-E SAḤAR

  Morteza Hosayni Dehkordi and Parvin Loloi

  (Dawn bird), a taṣnif (song) in māhur mode,  probably written for its music around 1921, when the first signs of dictatorship were appearing.

• ʿAJEZ, NARAYAN KAUL

  A. Mattoo

  Kashmiri Brahman of the 17th-18th centuries, a poet and compiler of Moḵtaṣar-e tārīḵ-e Kašmīr (1710-11).

• FAYYĀŻ, ʿALĪ-AKBAR MAJĪDĪ

  Jalāl Matīnī

  Fayyāż remained an indefatigable scholar all his life, combining his profound knowledge of traditional Islamic sciences and Persian literature with modern methodology in scholarship and literary criticism.

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• ĒRĀN-XWARRAH-ŠĀBUHR

  Rika Gyselen

  lit. "Ērān, glory of Šāpūr"; Sasanian province (šahrestān) containing Susa and probably created by Šāpūr II (r. 309-379).

• ČĀH-BAHĀR

  Eckart Ehlers

  Name of a town and bay on the Makrān coast of Persian Baluchistan facing the coast of Oman.

• GĒV

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  one of the foremost heroes of the national epic in the reigns of Kay Kāvūs and Kay Ḵosrow.

• BAHĀR, MOḤAMMAD-TAQĪ

  M. B. Loraine, J. Matīnī

  poet, scholar, journalist, politician, and historian (1886-1951). i. Life and work. ii. Bahār as a poet.

• SABKŠENĀSI

  Matthew Smith

  the title of a book by Malek al-Šoʿarā Moḥammad Taqi Bahār first published in 1942.

• FOX ii. IN PERSIA

  Mahmoud and Teresa Omidsalar

  In pre-Islamic Iran, the fox was considered as one of the ten varieties of dog, created against a demon called xabag dēw. In Islam, although consuming fox flesh is forbidden by most schools of law, medicinal use of various parts of the fox’s body is allowed for treatment of a variety of conditions.

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• FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM ii. Hajw-nāma

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  Hajw-nāma is the title of a verse lampoon of Sultan Maḥmūd of Ḡazna attributed to Ferdowsī. According to Neẓāmī ʿArūżī, after Ferdowsī presented his Šāh-nāma, the sultan used the pretext of the poet’s alleged Muʿtazilite and Shiʿite orientation to give him only twenty thousand dirhams as the reward for the epic.

• BĀḴTAR (2)

  N. Parvīn

  name of an educational magazine (Isfahan, 1933-35) and a political newspaper (Isfahan and Tehran, 1935-45).

• BĀBAK

  Touraj Daryaee

  reformer of the Sasanian military and in charge of the department of the warriors (Diwān al-moqātela) during the reign of Ḵosrow I Anušervān in the 6th century CE. 

• FARHANG-E ĀNANDRĀJ

  Solomon Baevskiĭ

  a dictionary of the Persian language named in honor of the maharaja Ānand Gajapatī Rāj, the nineteenth century ruler of Vijayanagar in South India.

• GOSTAHAM

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  name of two heroes in the Šāh-nāma.

• AMĪRAK ṬŪSĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  4th/10th century notable of the ʿAbd-al-Razzāqī family of Ṭūs.

• TĀRIḴ-E SISTĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  an anonymous local history in Persian of the eastern Iranian region of Sistān, the region that straddles the modern Iran-Afghanistan border. It forms a notable example of the flourishing genre of local histories in the pre-modern Iranian lands.

• BAHMAN-NĀMA

  W. L. Hanaway, Jr.

  epic poem in Persian of about 9,500 lines recounting the adventures of Bahman son of Esfandīār.

• FORŪD (2)

  Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh

  or Ferōd; son of Sīāvaḵš and half brother of Kay Ḵosrow.

• BŪRĀN

  Ihsan Abbas

  (Middle Pers. Bōrān) also called Ḵadīja (807-84), wife of al-Maʾmūn and daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, probably so named after the Sasanian queen Bōrān.