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Cinema Iranica
Cinema Iranica provides historical articles on movies, genres, film movements, filmographies, directors, composers, stars, cinematographers ...
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Women Poets Iranica
Women Poets Iranica is an integrative encyclopedia of postclassical, modern, and contemporary women poets.
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Encyclopædia Iranica
The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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SCHAEDER, HANS HEINRICH
HANS HEINRICH (1896-1957), a major German Iranist and scholar of related disciplines.
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BŪSALĪK
a maqām in Arabian, Turkish, and Persian musical traditions to this day; however, the contemporary form of the maqām of Būsalīk differs from that which is given by the classical scholars.