Parviz Mohebbi
- KATTĀN ii. Linseed oil
Linseed oil (rowḡān-e kattān) is a product of cultivated linseed or flax (Linum usitatissimum L.). Rahimi-Laridjani suggests that the term semsem ‘sesame’ would be…
- KATTĀN i. LINEN
Cultivated flax has its ancestry in the wild flax (Linum angustifolium L.), which was widely distributed from Western Europe via the…
- FIREARMS ii. PRODUCTION OF CANNON AND MUSKETS
FIREARMS ii. PRODUCTION OF CANNON AND MUSKETS It is now known that some fifty cannons were made in Persia between…
- FALĀḴAN
FALĀḴAN (a sling), a term probably derived from the Avestan fradaxšanā- (Darmesteter, II, p. 215, n. 38; AirWb., col. 981)….
- ḤĀFEẒ EṢFAHĀNI
ḤĀFEẒ EṢFAHĀNI, Mawlānā Moḥammad, known as Moḵtareʿ (inventor), was a 9th-10th/15th-16th century engineer who left a treaty, Se resāla dar…
- GEMCUTTING
GEMCUTTING (ḥakkākī). The first-known reference in Persian to gem cutting is found in an anonymous treatise on jewelry, Jowhar-nāma-ye neẓāmī,…