ʿEŠQĪ, MOLLĀ BĀBOR b. Hedāyat-Allāh, Central Asian poet writing in Persian. Born into a farmer’s family in 1792 in Vārū-ye…

EMLĀ BOḴĀRĀʾĪ, MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAlāʾ-al-Dīn, Sufi poet of Arab descent, born in 1688 in Sangārak, Afghanistan, died in 1749 in…

KRÁMSKÝ, JIRÍ (b. Plzen [Pilsen], western Bohemia, 23 October 1913; d. Prague, 30 September 1991), Czech general linguist who specialized…

Křikavová, Adéla (b. Prague, 9 August, 1938; d. Prague, 3 August, 2002; FIGURE 1) Czech scholar of Iranian and particularly…