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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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CODICES HAFNIENSES
forty-three Avestan and Pahlavi codices acquired by Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787-1832) in Bombay, India, and Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1815-1878) in Persia, all originally deposited in the library of the University of Copenhagen but later transferred to the Royal Library.
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SAMFONI-e MORDAGĀN
first novel (1989) by Abbas Maroufi, fiction writer and the founder and editor of the periodical Gardun.