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ʿAZĪZ-AL-SOLṬĀN, ḠOLĀM-ʿALĪ KHAN (1297-1359/1879-1940) better known as Malījak(-e) Ṯānī [II], the boy favorite of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah Qājār. He was the son of Mīrzā Moḥammad Khan Malījak Awwal [I] (later Amīn Ḵāqān)—himself a favored page of the private quarters (ḵalwat)—and grand-son of a Kurdish shepherd from the small village of Ḥalwāʾī…

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ʿAŻOD-AL-DAWLA, ABŪ ŠOJĀʾ FANNĀ (PANĀH) ḴOSROW (or Ḵosrah, as on his coins), the greatest Buyid monarch and the most powerful ruler in the Islamic East in the last years of his life. He was born in Isfahan on 5 Ḏu’l-qaʿda 324/24 September 936 to Rokn-al-dawla Ḥasan b. Būya, second oldest…

ʿAŻOD-AL-DAWLA, SOLṬĀN-AḤMAD MIRZĀ (b. Tehran, 1239/1824; d. Tehran, 1319/1902; PLATE I), Qajar prince and official as well as author of a history known as the Tāriḵ‑e ʿażodi (also discussed in this entry).  Solṭān-Aḥmad Mirzā, also called Mučul Mirzā (Bayani, p. 33), was the 49th son of Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah Qājār, probably…

ʿAŻOD-AL-DĪN ĪJĪ, QĀŻĪ ABU’L-FAŻL ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. ROKN-AL-DĪN AḤMAD B. ʿABD-AL-ḠAFFĀR B. AḤMAD BAKRĪ MOṬARREZĪ ŠABĀNKĀRĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ, famous Shafeʿite jurist and Asḥʿarite theologian. He was born at Īj (Īg or Īk), then the chief town of the district Šabānkāra in Fārs, in 680/1281 or shortly afterwards. (The later dates 708 or…

ʿAŻOD-AL-MOLK, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD ḤOSAYN (d. 1284/1867), a senior official in the first part of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah Qājār’s reign. Both he and his father Mīrzā Fażlallāh Mollā-bāšī Qazvīnī were initially employed as clerical secretaries at the provincial government of the crown prince ʿAbbās Mīrzā in Azerbaijan (Farhād Mīrzā, Zanbīl, Tehran, 1329/1911,…

ʿAŻOD-AL-MOLK, ʿALĪ REŻĀ KHAN QĀJĀR, regent of Iran in 1327/1909-1328/1910. His father Mūsā Khan was a son of Solaymān Khan Qājār Eʿteżād-al-dawla and a first cousin of Mahd-e ʿOlyā, the mother of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah. He was born circa 1263/1847, because he is said to have been 35 years old on…

ʿEBĀDĪ, AḤMAD (b. Tehran, 1305/1906, d. 1371 Š./1993; Plate LVI), one of the outstanding modern masters of Persian music. He was a grandson of ʿAlī-Akbar Farāhānī (d. ca. 1275/1858) and a son of Mīrzā ʿAbd-Allāh (1261-1336/1845-1918), the great masters of their own times. ʿEbādī began accompanying his father on the…

ʿEBRAT, a monthly magazine first published on 15 Bahman 1334 Š./4 February 1956 as the organ of Tūda party prisoners under the auspices and with the facilities of the Office of Tehran’s Military Governor, General Teymūr Baḵtīār. Its format was thirty-eight, and later sixty-six, 16.5 x 23 cm pages, priced…

ʿEBRAT, pen name of Sayyed MOḤAMMAD-QĀSEM, author of ʿEbrat-nāma, a history of the reigns of Awrangzēb’s successors, namely Bahādoršāh (d. 1124/1712), Jahāndāršāh (d. 1124/1713), and Farroḵ-sīar (d. 1131/1719), till the fall of the Sayyed Brothers (1135/1723). Very little is known about him. His father’s name was Sayyed Borhān-Allāh, who spent…

ʿEDĀLAT (Ar. ʿAdālat “justice”), ḤEZB-E, Persian political party founded by ʿAlī Daštī in December 1941. After the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia in August 1941 Daštī, until then an ardent supporter of Reżā Shah (1924-41), was one of the first Majles deputies to defy him publicly and to advocate investigating the conduct…