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BAZAR v. Temporary Bazars in Iran and Afghanistan
The most firmly established form of periodic bāzār is certainly the one observed in the Caspian lowlands of Iran and especially in the central plain of Gīlān, where weekly bāzārs (bāzār-e haftagī) are part of a particularly long tradition.
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ṬABĀṬABĀʾI, MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN
eminent Twelver Shiʿite philosopher and author of a famous exegesis of the Qur’an, al-Mizān.