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Taḳīzāda
(714 words)
, Sayyid Ḥasan (b. Tabrīz, 27 September 1878, d. Tehran, 28 January 1970), Persian politician and scholar of Iranian studies. 1. Life. The son of Sayyid Taḳī Urdūbādī, he received both a traditional Islamic and a modern education, including natural science and French and, to some extent, the English language. In Tabrīz he founded, with three like-minded friends, an ephemeral journal,
Gand̲j̲īna-yi funūn (1903-4), and then travelled for a year in the Caucasus, Istanbul, Beirut and Egypt, returning with Western modernist ideas and sympa…
Tard̲j̲ama
(12,376 words)
(a., pl.
tarād̲j̲im ), verbal noun of the verb
tard̲j̲ama “to interpret, translate, write the biography of someone (
lahu )”. For the function of interpreter, see tard̲j̲umān . ¶ 1. In literature. Here, it may form part of the title of a biography, or, especially in contemporary North Africa, the biography (or autobiography) itself. Hence
ʿilm al-tarād̲j̲im is a branch of historical research, sometimes equated by the Twelver S̲h̲īʿa with
ʿilm al-rid̲j̲āl [
q.v.]. The term dates to at least the early 5th/11th century, where it appears in the titles of three works by al…