KASHMIR   v. Persian Influence on Kashmiri Art  The Iranian influence on the art and architecture of Kashmir is indirect,…

FATḤ JANG, EBRĀHĪM KHAN (or Mīrzā Ebrāhīm), a Mughal official (d. 1033/1623-24). According to the Maʾāṯer al-omarā ([Calcutta] I, p….

DAYR-E GAČĪN (lit., “gypsum hospice”), Sasanian caravansary situated in the desert halfway between Ray and Qom, on the ancient route from…

DĀRZĪN, a village (29° 11´ N, 58° 09´E) on the road between Kermān and Bam on the site of a…

ḠĪĀṮ BEG (Ḡīāṯ-al-Dīn Moḥammad Tehrānī), ʿEʿTEMĀD-AL-DAWLA, prime minister of the Mughal emperor Jahāngīr and father of the emperor’s wife, Nūr…