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CONVERSION ii. Of Iranians to Islam Iranians were among the very earliest converts to Islam, and their conversion in significant…

ENCYCLOPAEDIAOF ISLAM, a reference work of fundamental importance on topics dealing, according to its self-description, with “the geography, ethnography and…

HISTORIOGRAPHY iii. EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD Introduction. It might well be questioned whether there is, strictly speaking, any “historiography of Persia…

GOLESTĀN TREATY (Treaty of Gulistan), agreement arranged under British auspices to end the Russo-Persian War of 1218-28/1804-13 (Figure 1). The…