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Iranian National March title Iranian National March genre/topic Hymn language   performer Manučehr Ṣahbābi instrument Piano composer  Minbāšiān, Ḡolām-Ḥoseyn author/poet   first line of poem   recorded by   place of recording   date of recording   duration 1:15 source Old Iranian Hymns. Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, 2010…

IRĀNŠĀH, the term now used by the Parsis as the name of their oldest sacred fire, the Ātaš Bahrām (q.v.) established originally at Sanjān and now installed at Udwada, both in Gujarat; but this usage cannot be traced to earlier than the beginning of the twentieth century C.E. The Iranian…

IRĀNŠAHR, a city, formerly Fahraj (q.v. at iranica .com), and a sub-province (šahrestān) in the province of Sistān and Baluchistan (q.v.). In 1935, the district (baḵš) of Bampur (q.v.) was officially renamed Irānšahr, and a year later it became part of the Ḵāš sub-province. In 1947 it was officially recognized…

IRĀNŠAHR, an encyclopedic collection of articles published in the 1960s under the auspices of the UNESCO National Commission in Iran, with funds provided by the Pahlavi Foundation and a number of departments of the Persian government (Figure 1, Figure 2). The ambitious idea, as presented in the preface of the…

IRĀNŠAHR, a monthly Persian journal, published in forty-eight issues in Berlin by Ḥosayn Kāẓemzāda Irānšahr (q.v.) from June 1922 to February 1927. Kāẓemzāda was a member of the Committee of the Iranian Nationalists (Komita-ye melliun-e irāni), which was formed in Berlin by Sayyed Ḥasan Taqizāda (*q.v.) to promote the interests…

IRĀNŠAHR ii. Population, 1956-2011 This article deals with the following population characteristics of Irānšahr city: population growth from 1956 to 2011, age structure, average household size, literacy rate, and economic activity status for 2006 and/or 2011 (different dates for the categories are determined by the availability of census data). Population…

IRĀNŠAHR, ḤOSAYN KĀẒEMZĀDA (حسین کاظم‌زاده ایرانشهر), an ardent Iranian nationalist active during the First World War, prolific author on political, religious, and educational subjects, and the publisher of the journal Irānšahr (q.v.) in the 1920s (b. Tabriz, 11 Rabiʿ I 1301/10 January 1884; d. Degerheim, Switzerland, 27 Esfand 1941/18 March…

IRĀNŠAHRI, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MOḤAMMAD b. Moḥammad (fl. 2nd half 3rd/9th cent.), mathematician, natural scientist, historian of religion, astronomer, philosopher, and author. He was from Nišāpur, the city known also as Irānšahr (Moqaddasi, pp. 299-300; Ebn Faqih, p. 321), hence his title Irānšahri. Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow mentions him as the teacher of Moḥammad…

IRANSHENASI, a journal of Iranian studies, which began publication under the editorship of Jalāl Matini and with the help of generous Iranians who have been willing to subsidize it since the spring of 1989, when its first issue was published. Matini founded the journal a year after he left the…

IRANZAMIN, TEHRAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (Irānzamin, Madrasa-ye Baynalmelali-e Tehrān), a combined Iranian and American international school founded in 1967. Iranzamin developed out of the American Community School (Madrasa-ye Āmrikāʾi) in Tehran. Community School’s roots go back to Alborz College (q.v.) and an American Presbyterian missionary, Justin Perkins, who founded a church,…