BAŠĀKERD (also Bašāgerd), a roughly rectan­gular mountainous district (dehestān) east of Mīnāb and north of Jāsk. Bašākerd proper is bounded…

ANTHROPOLOGY (New Persian mardomšenāsī), social and cultural, in Iran and Afghanistan (see also Afghanistan iv). Anthropology as an Iranological discipline…

ĀBYĀRĪ, “irrigation” in Iran. Introduction. Although dry farming is important in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Khorasan, as well as some other…