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Cinema Iranica
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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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FERDOWSI, ABU'L-QĀSEM
(940-1019 or 1025), one of the greatest epic poets and author of the Šāh-nāma, the national epic of Persia.
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FARDIN, Moḥammad ʿAli
Fardin’s 23-year film career blossomed late, after a short stint in the theater, and it suffered an early demise in 1981 when the Islamic Republic of Iran banned him from filmmaking in a wholesale purge of the major entertainers of the pre-revolution era.