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ANTI-ALBORZ
the highland between Tehran and Semnān on the southern flank of the central Alborz range.
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HENNING, WALTER BRUNO
The emphasis on the philological character of Henning’s work is justified not only because all his discoveries were made through deductions from or new interpretations of original sources, but also because his working system kept astonishingly aloof from theorems regarding contemporary linguistics, the philosophy of history, ethnology, and comparative religion.