Abū-Muslem Eṣfahānī, Muhammad Ebn Baḥr, a littérateur, lexicographer, grammarian, poet, kāteb, and Quran exegete of
Khādemī, Sayyed Hussein, a contemporary Emāmī jurist. He was born in Isfahan on 4th January
Vāḥed al-‛Ayn Eṣfahānī, Mullā Esmā‛īl, was a sage and teacher of Islamic philosophy in the
Zeynabīyye (Arzanān), a quarter located in the northeast of the city and part of District
Mahdavī, Muṣleḥ al-dīn, a contemporary biographer and Isfahan researcher (1915/1334–1995/1374). Sayyed Muhammad-Hussein Mahdavī Eṣfahānī, known
Shahnāz, Jalīl, a distinguished long-necked lute (tār) player and master improviser of contemporary Iranian music.
Emāmī Esfahānī, a family of monumental inscriptionists in the 17th–18th centuries (11th–12th). According to the
Rose of Isfahan (Gul-e Surkh-e Isfahan), The rose of Isfahan, the floral emblem of Isfahan,
Farhang (Isfahan),a news periodical published during the reign of Nāṣer al-Dīn Shah (r. 1848–1896/1264–1313). Farhang
Mu‛īn-‛Abbāsī, Sayyed ‛Abbās, blind musician and educator active in teaching music to the blind in
Esther Khātūn, one of the most renowned Jewish pilgrimage sites in Iran, is located in
Ṣāʾeb Tabrīzī. A Persian-language poet of the 17th/11th century, and one of the eminent poets
Eṣfahānī, Gūyesh (Dialect) Introduction Isfahanī is one of the dialects of Persian that exhibits mutual
Eṣfahānī, Sayyed Abū al-Hasan, a Twelver Shiite senior jurist (marja‛) of the nineteenth and twentieth/thirteenth
Nukhudakī Eṣfahānī, Hasan-Ali, Emāmī scholar and mystic from Isfahan in the late 19th and early
Bannā, Muhammad b. Yūsuf – Ṣūfī and hadith transmitter from Isfahan in the 9th/3rd century.
Falāṭūrī, ‛Abd al-Javād, a contemporary Islamic scholar and author of works on comparative philosophy (1925–1996).
Qashqāʾī, Jahāngīr-Khān, teacher of philosophy and some Islamic sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries/13th
Namād-e Eṣfahān (The Symbol of Isfahan), an iconic1 emblem based on the constellation Sagittarius, representing
Ṣafī ‛Alīshāh, Mīrzā Hasan Eṣfahānī a prominent Sufi of the Ne‛matullāhī* order in the 13th
Sulṭān al-‛Ulamā, Hussein b. Muhammad, an Imāmī jurist of the 17th/11th century and grand vizier
Dardasht/Bābuldasht/Bābeldasht, one of the old quarters of Isfahan, located in the northern part of the
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The System of Transliteration and Abbreviation at The Encyclopaedia Isfahanica (EIs)
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J ج
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