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Balkhi, Shahid
71
,
89

Baluchistan, Baluchis,
xiv
,
149
,
151
,
281

Bam
172

Bani-Sadr, Abol-Hasan
270

El Baradei, Dr Mohamed
295

Bardiya
17
,
18

Barmakids
81

Basra
159
,
160
,
163
,
168

bast
205
,
206
,
210

Bausani, Alessandro
54
,
55
,
78

bazaar
51
,
184
,
200
,
204–5
,
206
,
232

bazaar guilds
7
,
175
,
206–8
,
259

Bazargan, Mehdi
258
,
262
,
267
,
268
,
269
,
270

bazgasht
230

Bedouin
72

Behbehani, Aqa Mohammad Baqer
174

Behbehani, Ayatollah Abdollah
204
,
206
,
208
,
212

Beheshti, Ayatollah
271

Behesht-e Zahra (cemetery)
266
,
274

Belgium
196
,
203–5
,
208

Belisarius
66

Bessus
29

Beyt al-Hikma
83

Bidel
116

Bill, James A
253

Bishapur
48
,
49

Bisitun
17
,
18
,
19
,
20
,
23
,
89

Black Friday (8 September 1978)
262

Bogomils
55

Bokhara
87
,
156

Bolsheviks
218
,
221
,
266
,
278

Borujerdi, Ayatollah Hosein
245
,
247
,
250

Boyce, Mary
299

Bridge, battle of
76

Britain
182–3
,
189
,
196–9
,
215–16
,
219–221
,
232–3
,
245
,
283

British Petroleum (BP)
245

Browne, E.G.
139

Buddhism
57
,
106

Bunyan, John
9

bureaucracy
83
,
144
,
185
,
209–10
,
228

Bush, President George W
288

Bushire
182
,
196

Buyids
87

Byzantines
66
,
120
,
129

 

Cairo
110

caliph (
Khalifa
), caliphate
76
,
79
,
83
,
87
,
128

Callias (peace treaty)
26

Callinicum
66

Cambyses (Kambojiya)
17
,
20

Caracalla
44

Cardaces
27

Carlyle
166

Carrhae
37
,
39
,
41
,
44

Carter, President
257
,
260
,
263
,
271

Caspian Sea
15
,
34
,
77
,
152
,
156
,
183
,
218
,
221

Cathars
55

Caucasus
3
,
44
,
66
,
173
,
179
,
181–5
,
232

chador
xv
,
194
,
253

Chaeronea
29

Chaldiran
133

chess
65

China
39
,
83
,
84
,
119

Chionite Huns
59

Christianity
9
,
52
,
53
,
54
,
58
,
59–60
,
125

Churchill
235
,
287

Clinton, President
283

Clive of India
165

Constantine
58
,
133

Constantinople
68
,
100

Constitutional movement
207
,
210
,
217

Corbulo
41

Cossack Brigade
198
,
203
,
207–11
,
217
,
221
,
225
,
226

Council of Guardians
269

Crassus
37

Croesus
1
,
12

Crone, Patricia
15
,

Ctesiphon
35
,
43–4
,
45
,
65
,
66
,
68
,
69
,
76

Curzon, Lord
219
,
220
,
221

Cyaxares (Uaksatar)
5

cynicism in (British) foreign policy
199

Cyrus (Kurosh)
1
,
11–17
,
20
,
26
,
27
,
59
,
68
,
256
,
276
; principles continued by Darius:
21–2

daena
9
,
78

Daghestan
160
,
161
,
163
,
166
,
183

Dahae
34
,

Damascus
68
,
76
,
79
,
110

Daneshvar, Simin
244

Dara
66

Dar al-Funun
195
,
199

D’Arcy, William Knox
204
,
216
,
231

Dari,
xvi
,

Darius I (Daryavaush)
18–25
,
89

Darius III
27
,
28
,
28
illus.,
29
,
31
, Daryaee, Touraj vii-viii,
61

Dasht-e Kavir (desert)
3

Dasht-e Lut (desert)
3

dehqans
49
,
63
,
64
,
66
,
80
,
90

Deioces (Daiaukku)
5
,

Delhi
97
,
106
,
119
,
158–160
,
167

Demavand
4

Democratic party
212
; Kurdish (KDP), see

Kurdish Democratic Party dervishes
97
,
98

din-e dawlat
259
,
276
Dio Cassius
44

diwan
63
,
81

drauga
(
druj
)
10

Dunsterville, General
218
,
220

East India Company, English
135
,
180
,
182

Ebadi, Shirin
291
,
297–8

Ebtehaj, Abol-Hassan
245

Edessa
48
,
67

education
203–4
,
228
,
252
,
281–2
, Egypt
17
,
24
,
26
,
29
,
31
,
33
,
56
,
180
,
201
,
232
,
294

Elagabalus
31

Elam
2
,
21
,
23

Emami, Saeed
283

Erekle II of Georgia
167

erfan
138
,
249
,
250

Esma‘il, Shah
131–3

Esma‘il II, Shah
142

Ettela’at
(newspaper)
261
,
270

Eumenes of Cardia
31

Euphrates
43
,
58
,
123

Euripedes
38

Evin Prison
267
,
270

Ezra
10
,
26

Fao peninsula
273
,
274

Farazdaq
266

Farrokhzad, Forugh
230

Fars,
xv
,
xvi
,
44
,
45
,
227

Fath Ali Shah
178–82
,
185–7
,
189

Fatima
75
,
79
,
124

Fatimids
128
,

Feda’i
255
,
272

Ferdowsi
39
,
63–4
,
72
,
89–90
,
107
,
118
,
141
,
256

Ferozabad
45
,
49
,
81

fiqh
258

fire-temples
32
,
51

Fitzgerald, Edward
93–4

Foruhar, Dariush
257–8
,
283

Foruhar, Parvaneh
283

France, the French
180–2
,
215
,
232
,
256

fravashi
9
,
36
Freedom Movement
258
,
262
,
267
,
270
,
272

Gabinius
37

Ganja
181
,
183

Ganji, Akbar
291

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