FARHĀD MĪRZĀ MOʿTAMAD-AL-DAWLA (b. 1233/1818, Tabrīz; d. 1305/1888, Tehran; Figure 1), Qajar prince-governor, author, and bibliophile. He was the fifteenth…

ʿEZZAT-AL-DAWLA, MALEKAZĀDA ḴĀNOM (b. 1250/1834-35, d. 23 Rabīʿ II 1323/27 June 1905, Figure 1), the only full sister of Nāṣer-al-Dīn…

ʿEZZ-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD MĪRZĀ (b. Rabīʿ I 1260/March-April 1844, d. 30 Mehr 1308 Š./21 October 1929; Figure 1), half-brother of Nāṣer-al-Dīn…

ESḤĀQ KHAN QARĀʾĪ TORBATĪ (ca. 1156-1231/1743-1816), one of the wealthiest and most powerful chieftains in Khorasan during the reigns of…

ʿEMĀD ḤASANĪ, MĪR, ʿEMĀD-AL-MOLK b. Ebrāhīm (ca. 961-30 Rajab 1024/ca. 1554-15 August 1615), one of the most celebrated nastaʿlīq calligraphers…

EḤTEŠĀM-AL-DAWLA, ḴĀNLAR KHAN (d. Tehran, Šawwāl 1278/April 1862), seventeenth son of ʿAbbās Mīrzā (q.v.) and governor of several regions in…

D’ARCY, JOSEPH (Pers. “Mester Bārūt,” “Qūlūnel Khan,” “Qonsūl Khan”; b. Portsmouth, England, 14 March 1780, d. Lymington, England, 17 February…

GOLŠAN ALBUM (Moraqqaʿ-e golšan), a sumptuous 11th/17th-century album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and engravings by Mughal, Persian, Deccani, Turkish, and…

GOLESTĀN-E HONAR, a 16th-century treatise on the art of calligraphy, with brief biographical notices on a selection of past and…

GARRETT COLLECTION, one of the finest collections of Near Eastern manuscripts, bequeathed to the Princeton University Library by Robert Garrett…

ḠAFFĀRĪ, NEẒĀM-AL-DĪN Mohandes-al-Mamālek, Qajar minister and engineer (b. in Borzābād, a village near Kāšān, 10 Šaʿbān 1260/24 August 1844; d….

ḠAFFĀRĪ, MOḤAMMAD-EBRĀHĪM Khan Moʿāwen-al-Dawla, Qajar diplomat and minister during the reigns of the last four Qajar kings (b. 1276/1859-60, d….

ḠAFFĀRĪ, ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN KHAN Amīn-e Ḵalwat (b. Tehran, 5 Moḥarram 1276/5 August 1859, d. 8 Farvardīn 1326 Š./28 March 1947; Figure…