KĀŠĀNI, ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ KHAN, the fourth governor of Kashan for nearly a quarter of a century in the Zand period (1164-1209/1751-94).  He…

ĀQĀ KHAN KERMĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN (1270-1314/1854-55 to 1896), Iranian writer and intellectual, and an outstanding example of a first-generation secular…

ANJOMAN (gathering, association, society), general designation of many private and public associations: i. Political (anǰoman-e sīāsī). ii. Religious (anǰoman-e maḏhabī)….

ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ḤAMADĀNĪ, FAḴR-AL-DĪN, (d. 1216/1801), faqīh, author, and well-known Sufi master of the Neʿmatallāhī order. Sources do not give the…

ʿABD-AL-REŻĀ KHAN AMĪR MOʾAYYAD (d. 1249/1833), deputy-governor and powerful noble of Yazd. His father, Moḥammad-Ṭaqī Khan Bāfqī, had for forty…