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PAHLAVI PSALTER
Philippe Gignoux
name given to a fragment, consisting of twelve pages written on both sides, of a Middle Persian translation of the Syriac Psalter. It was discovered, with a mass of other documents, at Bulayiq, near Turfan, in eastern Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China) by one of the four German expeditions to Central Asia.
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PAHLAVI PAPYRI
Dieter Weber
documents written exclusively in Egypt during the Persian (Sasanian) occupation under Ḵosrow II between 619 and 629 CE.
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JOURNALISM ii. Pahlavi Period
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See forthcoming online.
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HEALTH IN PERSIA iv. PAHLAVI PERIOD
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See Supplement.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ix. PAHLAVI PERIOD
Abbas Amanat, EIr
Historiography of this period will be treated in two separate entries: (1) General survey of historical writings; and (2) Specific topics concerning historical works.
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HEDAYAT, SADEQ iv. TRANSLATIONS OF PAHLAVI TEXTS
Touraj Daryaee
Sadeq Hedayat traveled to India in 1936 and stayed for less than two years. In Bombay he began studying Middle Persian and some Pāzand with the Parsi scholar B. T. Anklesaria.
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CROWN v. In the Qajar and Pahlavi periods
Yaḥyā Ḏokāʾ
Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah (r. 1797-1834) ordered the creation of a tall, jeweled crown with eight peaks on a red velvet cap, the Kayānī crown. From that time on all Qajar kings wore this crown, which is now kept in the Bānk-e markazī-e Īrān (Central bank of Iran).
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KAYĀNIĀN i. Kavi: Avestan kauui, Pahlavi kay
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Kavi is the Indo-Iranian term for “(visionary) poet.” The term may be older than Indo-Iranian, if Lydian kaveś and the Samothracean title cited by Hesychius as koíēs or kóēs are related.
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CLOTHING xi. In the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods
ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
Office workers and other urban residents who favored modernity gradually adopted the sardārī (frock coat), trousers, and even on occasion Western suits. In 1928 the cabinet resolved that all male Persians dress uniformly in Western style.
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EDUCATION xxvi. WOMEN’S EDUCATION IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD AND AFTER
EIr
In the 1920s and 1930s women’s public education in Persia was established and grew rapidly. In 1926-27 the enrollment of females in primary schools was about 17,000, 21 percent of total enrollment at that level.
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