Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī
Articles by Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yūsofī
- CLOTHING xxvii. Historical lexicon of Persian clothing
CLOTHING xxvii. Historical lexicon of Persian clothing Only terms for garments used in Persia at the present time or known…
- ČŪB ḴAṬṬ
ČŪB-ḴAṬṬ (or čūḵaṭṭ; var. čūb-qaṭṭ; Dehḵodā, s.v.; in Šūštar, Kāzerūn, and other parts of southern Persia kana; Nīrūmand, pp. 150,…
- ČEHEL ṬŪṬĪ
ČEHEL ṬŪṬĪ (forty parrot [stories]), the designation of collections of entertaining stories about the wife of a merchant and a…
- ČEGEL
ČEGEL (Jekel), name of a Turkish people in Central Asia known in Persian poetry for the extraordinary beauty of their…
- ČĀVOŠ
ČĀVOŠ or ČĀVŪŠ, originally Turkish word (Kāšḡārī, I, p. 307; Radloff, III, col. 1935; Doerfer, III, pp. 35-38) used in…
- ČARAND PARAND
ČARAND PARAND (commonly pronounced Čarand o parand), literally “fiddle-faddle,” the title of satirical pieces of social and political criticism in…
- CALLIGRAPHY (continued)
CALLIGRAPHY (continued) – Click here to go the beginning of the article. VII. Calligraphy outside Persia. Regional styles. In the…
- CALLIGRAPHY
CALLIGRAPHY (ḵaṭṭāṭī, ḵᵛošnevīsī). Introduction. The writing system in use in Persia since early Islamic times grew out of the Arabic…
- ČAHĀRBĀḠ-E MAŠHAD
Č(AH)ĀRBĀḠ-E MAŠHAD. The term čahārbāḡ (commonly contracted to čārbāḡ, lit. “four gardens”) must originally have denoted a garden made up…
- ČAHĀR MAQĀLA
ČAHĀR MAQĀLA, Persian prose work written in the 6th/12th century by Abu’l-Ḥasan Neẓām-al-Dīn (or Najm-al-Dīn) Aḥmad b. ʿOmar b. ʿAlī…
- BĪSTGĀNĪ
BĪSTGĀNĪ, Persian term for pay and rations of troops used in classical texts, corresponding to Arabic ʿešrīnīya. According to the…
- BELQĪS
BELQĪS, the queen of Sheba (Sabā) whose meetings with Solomon (Solaymān) are a favorite theme in Persian and Arabic literature….
- BEHĀFARĪD
BEHĀFARĪD, Zoroastrian heresiarch and self-styled prophet, killed 131/748-49. His name is given variously as Behāfarīd b. Farvardīnān, “Behāfarīd the son…