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…
- BAYHAQĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL
BAYHAQĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN, secretary at the Ghaznavid court and renowned Persian historian, b. 385/995 at Ḥāreṯābād in Bayhaq…
- BAHĀR (Journal)
BAHĀR, a Persian literary, scientific, political, and social-affairs monthly founded by Mīrzā Yūsof Khan Āštīānī, called Eʿteṣām-e Daftar and Eʿteṣām-al-Molk…
- BĀḠ-E PĪRŪZĪ
BĀḠ-e PĪRŪZĪ (or Fīrūzī), literally “Garden of Triumph,” a royal garden in Ḡazna lying beside the Fīrūzī palace and the…
- BAYRĀMŠĀH
BAYRĀMŠĀH (d. 769/1367-69; name derived from Tk. bayram “feast”), the beloved companion (nadīm) of Sultan Oways, second ruler (r. 757-76/1356-1374-75)…
- BĀBAK ḴORRAMI
BĀBAK ḴORRAMĪ (d. Ṣafar, 223/January, 838), leader of the Ḵorramdīnī or Ḵorramī uprising in Azarbaijan in the early 3rd/9th century…
- BAḎḎ
BAḎḎ or BAḎḎAYN (perhaps two places), a mountainous region (kūra) in Azarbaijan and a center of Ḵorramīs (Ebn al-Nadīm, ed….
- AḤMAD MAYMANDĪ
AḤMAD B. ḤASAN MAYMANDĪ, ŠAMS-AL-KOFĀT ABU’L-QĀSEM (d. 424/1032), Ghaznavid vizier, statesman, and foster brother and schoolfellow of Sultan Maḥmūd of…
- ABŪ SAHL ZŪZANĪ
ABŪ SAHL MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN (or ḤASAN) ZŪZANĪ, courtier and official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd (388-421/998-1030) and Masʿūd (421-32/1031-41),…
- ABŪ SAHL LAKŠAN
ABŪ SAHL LAKŠAN, full name ḴᵛĀJA ABŪ SAHL DABĪR ʿABDALLĀH B. AḤMAD B. LAKŠAN, official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd…
- ABŪ SAHL ḤAMDOWĪ
ABŪ SAHL ḤAMDOWĪ (or Ḥamdūʾī), AḤMAD B. ḤASAN, Ghaznavid official of the 4th-5th/11th century. His laqab is sometimes cited as…
- ABŪ MOSLEM ḴORĀSĀNĪ
ABŪ MOSLEM ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. MOSLEM ḴORĀSĀNĪ, prominent leader in the ʿAbbasid cause. He was born either at Marv or in…
- ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ
ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ, ʿAMĪD-AL-MOLK ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN, fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and…
- ABŪ BAKR ḤAṢĪRĪ
ABŪ BAKR ḤAṢĪRĪ (ḴᵛĀJA ABŪ BAKR ʿABDALLĀH B. YŪSOF SĪSTĀNĪ), Shafeʿite faqīh (jurist) and Ghaznavid official, d. 424/1033. According to the…