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ṬEHRĀNI, ḤĀJJ MIRZĀ MOḤAMMAD (d. Tehran, ca. Jomādā II 1339/February 1921), sugar merchant and bookseller, compiler of  Fawākeh al-basātin (Fruits of gardens), a philosophical, ethical, and literary miscellany notebook composed in Arabic and Persian (completed ca. late 1914).Ḥājj Mirzā Moḥammad Ṭehrāni, also known as Ḥājj Mirzā Moḥammad “Ketāb-foruš-e Ṭehrāni” (“Tehran bookseller”), one of a number of booksellers at the time with that name and moniker, was the compiler and author of  Fawākeh al-basātin, a miscellany notebook written in Tehran and completed in …

JURĀBČI, ḤĀJJ MOḤAMMAD-TAQI (b. Tabriz, 5 June 1868; d. Tehran, c. 1920), a Tabriz merchant, constitutionalist, and author of an interesting and informative memoir written during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (q.v.).Ḥājj Moḥammad-Taqi was born into a family of mid-level Azeri merchants that was initially based in Tabriz and later branched out to Rasht and Tehran as well as to Istanbul. The family also had dealings with Baku and Mashad. He descended from a long line of merchants. His father, Ḥājj Ḥasan Jurābči (b. 183…

professor of psychology, psychoanalyst, educator, writer, translator, and government official. SANAI, MAHMOUD (Ṣanāʿi, Maḥmūd; b. Arāk, 23 May 1919; d. London, 13 September 1985), professor of psychology, psychoanalyst, educator, writer, translator, and government official (Figure 1, Figure 2).Sanai’s family originated in the city of Arāk and later moved to Hamadān, where his father, Ḥāj Aḥmad Ṣanāʿi Homāyuni, was involved in the production and trade of carpets. Sanai received his primary school education at the American School in …

, Ḥabīb (né à Ḵh̲ūr, 17 décembre 1898, m. à Téhéran, 14 mai 1984), poète persan et éditeur d’ceuvres littéraires. Descendant du poète ancien ḳād̲j̲ār Yag̲h̲mā Ḏj̲andaḳī [ q.v.], Ḥabīb Yag̲h̲māʾī naquit dans la petite ville de Ḵh̲ūr près de Ḏj̲andaḳ et de Bīyābānak dans le désert central de la Perse. Il étudia d’abord avec son père, Ḥād̲j̲d̲j̲ Asad Allāh Muntak̲h̲āb al-Sādāt Ḵh̲ūrī, et quitta ensuite Ḵh̲ūr en 1916-17 pour les villes voisines de Dāmg̲h̲ān et de S̲h̲āhrūd afin de poursuivre ses études. A Dāmg̲h̲ān, il étudia …

Alborz College ( Dabīristān-i Alborz) is a high school in Tehran. Originally known as the American College of Tehran and established in 1873 as a Presbyterian missionary institution for boys, it was renamed in the early 1930s. In 1875 Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qājār (r. 1264–1313/1848–96) agreed to the establishment of a new building for the school within Tehran's Armenian quarter (Mūsavī Mākūʾī, 11). By 1891 the school had a total of 135 students, over half of whom were Muslims (Armajani, 822). In 1898, following his graduation from Lafayette College (1895) and the Princeton Theolo…