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ĀŽANG (Wrinkle), a Persian newspaper which commenced publication in Esfand, 1332 Š./February, 1954, and lasted until 1353 Š./1974. The license-holder and director was Sayyed Kāẓem Masʿūdī. Featuring news and political comments, Āžang was one of the twelve licensed dailies in Tehran at that time, but in most years only three…

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ĀẔAR (ĀḎAR) BĪGDELĪ, ḤĀJJ LOṬF-ʿALĪ BĪG B. ĀQĀ KHAN BĪGDELĪ ŠĀMLŪ (fl. 1134/1721-1195/1781), poet and author of a taḏkera (biographical anthology) of about 850 Persian poets, complied in 1174/1760 and dedicated to Karīm Khan Zand (r. 1163/1750-1193/1779). Āẕar belonged to the Syrian (Šāmlū) branch of the Bīgdelī (Begdīllū) tribe, which…

ĀẔAR (ĀḎAR) KAYVĀN (b. between 1529 and 1533; d. between 1609 and 1618), a Zoroastrian high priest and native of Fārs who emigrated to India and became the founder of the Zoroastrian Ešrāqī or Illuminative School. The literature produced by this school constitutes a Zoroastrian Ešrāqī literature. It is dominated…

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ĀẔARBĀYJĀN (ĀḎARBĀY[E]JĀN), the title of a satirical-political journal published at Tabrīz in 1907. Among the many newspapers and periodicals published in Azerbaijan and Caucasia which have borne the name Āẕarbāyjān, this bilingual Persian and Azeri Turkish journal is the most memorable. Launched at Tabrīz a month after the coronation of…

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ĀẔARĪ (ĀḎARĪ) ṬŪSĪ, NŪR-AL-DĪN (or FAḴR-AL-DĪN) ḤAMZA B. ʿALĪ MALEK ESFARĀYENĪ BAYHAQĪ, Shiʿite Sufi poet (fl. 784-866/1382-1462). He was born in Esfarāyen (Khorasan), where his father was of some importance under the Sarbadārs (Dawlatšāh, p. 398). He showed an early inclination toward poetry and soon gained the favor of Šāhroḵ…

ĀZARMĪGDUXT (Pers. Āzarmīdoḵt, Arzmīdoḵt, Arzmīndoḵt, Āzarūmīddoḵt), Sasanian queen who according to Ṭabarī ruled for a few months in 630. She was the sister of Queen Pūrān (r. 630 or 631), daughter of King Ḵosrow II Parvēz. Her name, meaning “daughter of the respected one,” refers to her father (see Nöldeke,…

ĀẔARŠAHR (or DEHḴᵛĀRAQĀN; in the local Azeri Turkish: Toḵargān), a town and a district (baḵš) of the šahrestān of Tabrīz, bounded on the north and east by the district of Oskū, on the south by the sub-district (dehestān) of Sarājū, and on the west by Lake Urmia (Razmārā, Farhang IV,…

AŽDAHĀ “dragon,” various kinds of snake-like, mostly gigantic, monsters living in the air, on earth, or in the sea (also designated by other terms) sometimes connected with natural phenomena, especially rain and eclipses. i. In Old and Middle Iranian. ii. In Persian literature. iii. In Iranian folktales. iv. Armenian aždahak….