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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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ADMINISTRATION in Iran vii. Pahlavi period
R. Sheikholeslami
The constitution of 1906 and the supplementary laws of 1907 provided the juridical foundation for a legal-rational state within which the legislature was empowered to establish and modify the administration.
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FISCAL SYSTEM v. PAHLAVI PERIOD
MASSOUD KARSHENAS
The first attempts at setting up a modern fiscal system in Persian began after the Constitutional Revolution.
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FREEMASONRY iii. In the Pahlavi Period
EIr
There were three distinct phases: (1) dormancy, from 1925-1950 under Reżā Shah and for the decade following his abdication in 1941; (2) revival, and the creation of the Lodge Pahlavi; (3) burgeoning, in the period of 1955-78, when dozens of regular lodges were chartered.
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ZOROASTER iv. In the Pahlavi Books
A. V. Williams
Although Pahlavi was spoken as long ago as the 3rd century BCE, most of the written works that survive were compiled from older Zoroastrian material in the period after the Muslim conquest up to the 10th century CE.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ix. PAHLAVI PERIOD (2)
EIr
a survey of contributions in the fields of chronology, calendar systems, religious history, and cultural continuity from pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, and a survey of the ultra-nationalistic current in historical writings in the Pahlavi period.
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FEMINIST MOVEMENTS iii. IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD
Hamideh Sedghi
in the Pahlavi Period. The fundamental political, socio-cultural, and economic changes which Persia underwent in the Pahlavi era (1921-78) had drastic repercussions on the women’s rights movement and the condition of women.
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ARMY vi. Pahlavi Period
M. J. Sheikh-ol-Islami
While few foreign officers were employed, many cadets were sent abroad, mainly to French military academies. Consequently, the nascent military institutions were highly influenced by the style and organization which were prevalent in France.
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MIDDLE PERSIAN LITERATURE i. PAHLAVI LITERATURE
Carlo G. Cereti
the writings of the Zoroastrians in the Middle Persian language and Book Pahlavi script, which were compiled in the 9th and the 10th centuries CE.
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JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES vi. THE PAHLAVI ERA (1925-1979)
Orly R. Rahimiyan
Zionist institutions in London and the Iranian Foreign Ministry engaged in heated arguments over the total ban on emigration to Palestine and on the use of Iranian soil by Russian Jews as a transit station on their way to Palestine.
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COMMERCE vii. In the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods
Vahid Nowshirvani
A prominent feature of Persian export trade was the steady rise in both the value and volume of oil shipments through almost the entire Pahlavi period until the Revolution, when this trend was reversed. Because of the large increase in price in 1352 Š./1973 the value of Persian oil exports climbed substantially more than the volume in the 1970s. Other exports fared less well.
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