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JĀMĀSPASA, Dastur JAMASPJI MINOCHERJI
(1830-1898), Parsi priest and Iranologist. As a high priest he guided and supervised the consecration of several fire temples. He possessed a collection of important Zoroastrian manuscripts, and his publication Pahlavi texts (1897-1913) made these available to a larger audience.
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MĀLIK, NISṬŌRĪS GĪWARGĪS
(1864-1927), Assyrian priest, educator, and writer was born in the village of Sipūrḡān in the Urmia plain, Azerbaijan; he succeeded in persuading Norwegian Lutherans to sponsor missionary work aimed at supporting, rather than converting, the Church of the East.