Encyclopædia Iranica
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ZABĀN-E ZANĀN
Nassereddin Parvin
a newspaper and a magazine published in Isfahan and Tehran, respectively, by Ṣeddiqa Dawlatābādi (1883-1961), a pioneer advocate of women’s rights in Iran (18 July, 1919 to 1 January, 1921, a total of 57 issues).
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ZĀDSPRAM
Philippe Gignoux
a 9th-century Zoroastrian scholar and author. He was one of the four sons of Gušn-Jam (or Juwānjam, according to Boyce and Cereti).
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ZĀDUYA
Touraj Daryaee
a Persian noble in the 7th century CE who was instrumental in the crowning of Farroḵzād Ḵosrow as Sasanian king.
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ẒAHIR-AL-DAWLA, EBRĀHIM KHAN
Mehrnoush Soroush
(d. Tehran, 1240/1824), military leader and governor of Kermān under Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah Qajar.
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ZĀL
A. Shapur Shahbazi and Simone Cristoforetti
legendary prince of Sistān, father of Rostam, and a leading figure in Iranian traditional history. His story is given in the Šāh-nāma.
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ZAMYĀD YAŠT
Pallan Ichaporia
Yašt 19, the last in sequence of the great pieces of the Yašt hymn collection of the Younger Avesta.
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ZAND DYNASTY
John Perry
a dynasty that ruled in Persia (excluding Khorasan) from Shiraz, from the time when Nāder Shah’s (r. 1736-47) successors, the Afsharids, failed to recover western Persia until the founding of the Qajar dynasty by Āḡā Moḥammad Khan Qajar (r. 1779-97).
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ZAND Ī FRAGARD Ī JUD-DĒW-DĀD
Yaakov Elman and Mahnaz Moazami
“A Commentary on Chapters of the Vidēvdād”, a sixth-century Zoroastrian text. It has been preserved more or less intact as 240 pages and made up of about 540 sections.
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ZĀR
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam
harmful wind (bād) associated with spirit possession beliefs in southern coastal regions of Iran. People believe in the existence of winds that can be either vicious or peaceful, believer (Muslim) or non-believer (infidel).
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ZARANGIANA
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territory around Lake Hāmun and the Helmand river in modern Sistān. See DRANGIANA.