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    Vladimir Fyodorovich Minorsky (Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Минорский; 5 February [O.S. 24 February] 1877 – 25 March 1966) was a Russian academic, historian...
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    is written "Rewend" in the Sharafnama.[contradictory] According to Vladimir Minorsky, this could have been a corruption of the Arabic name "Rawadiya"....
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  • name Minorsky may refer to: Nicolas Minorsky (1885 – 1970), a Russian American control theory mathematician and applied scientist. Vladimir Minorsky (1877...
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    include the following scientists: Josef Markwart, Omeljan Pritsak, Vladimir Minorsky, Vladimir Baileys, Harald Haarmann, Murad Gadjievich Magomedov, Alikber...
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    the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain. Vladimir Minorsky believes that names such as Sharvān (Shirwān), Lāyzān and Baylaqān...
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    known in the west. They appear in Islamic history as part of what Vladimir Minorsky has called "the Iranian Intermezzo". This refers to a period in which...
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    Chaumont writes that Khorenatsi's etymology became more accepted after Vladimir Minorsky pointed out the use of the word dovīn to mean 'hill' in Persian place...
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    Pakhomov and Vladimir Minorsky thought the invasion was initiated by the ruler of Darbent, Bek-Bars b. Muzaffar. According to Minorsky, "the initiative...
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  • valuable Persian linguistic document as well. In regards to the title, Vladimir Minorsky commented on it in his 1937 translation as follows: "The word ḥudūd...
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  • and beyond. Historians debate the ethnicity of Tsanars. Historians Vladimir Minorsky, Anatoly Novoseltsev and others connect them with the Vainakhs (Chechens...
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    Armenian Culture. Influences and Creativity, Chico: 1982, 27–40. Vladimir Minorsky. A History of Sharvān and Darband in the 10th–11th Centuries. See:...
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    include Newroz and Simurgh. Some historians and linguists, such as Vladimir Minorsky, have suggested that the Medes, an Iranian people who inhabited much...
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  • village. He died near the village of Sheykhan on the Sirvan River. When Vladimir Minorsky visited his site in 1914, he vividly described the location and the...
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    Studies, University of London, Vol. 14, No. 3, Studies Presented to Vladimir Minorsky by His Colleagues and Friends (1952), pp. 523–39 İnalcik (1978), p...
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    II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge University Press, 1952. Vladimir Minorsky, "The Prehistory of Saladin", in Studies in Caucasian History, Cambridge...
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    Reza Pahlavi's reign. In 1986, at the time of the publication of Vladimir Minorsky's entry on the Lurs in the 2nd edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam...
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    dynasties. Such an obviously coined designation was introduced by Vladimir Minorsky, "The Iranian Intermezzo", in Studies in Caucasian history (London...
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  • H.W. (1971). "Ancient Kamboja", in Iran and Islam: In Memory of Vladimir Minorsky, ed. Bosworth, C.E., pp. 65-71. Edinburgh. Full text of "Kambuja Desa"...
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  • evidence. It is also favored by notable scholars and sources, such as Vladimir Minorsky, Richard Frye, Xavier De Planhol, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopædia...
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    University Press 1968. (Editor) Iran and Islam, in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh University Press 1971. (Editor, with Joseph Schacht) The...
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  • Ibn al-Muqaffa" in R.N. Frye, Iran and Islam. In Memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh University Press, 1971. Bauer, Michael Blas na Gàidhlig...
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    origins of the Kurds. The Median hypothesis was advanced by Vladimir Minorsky. Minorsky's view was subsequently accepted by many Kurdish nationalists...
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    al-Muqaffa". In Frye, R.N. (ed.). Iran and Islam. In Memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky. Edinburgh University Press. Namazi, Nushin (24 November 2008). "Persian...
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    Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950), ed. and trans. Vladimir Minorsky. Cairo: Cairo University Press, 1955, p. 74. "Khajin (Armenian Khachen)...
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    language save for very few vocabulary elements. Meanwhile orientalist Vladimir Minorsky referred to this theory as "pure delusion". According to him, the...
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    two peaks of Ararat according to scholars such as Nicholas Adontz, Vladimir Minorsky, Julius Fürst. It was created by Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, according...
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  • Turkan - married to his nephew Qutb al-Din Mohammad. According to Vladimir Minorsky, her identity was mistaken for Kutlugh Turkan. Yaqut Turkan - married...
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    comprehensively analyzed and translated by the Russian orientalist Vladimir Minorsky. The first line of the Shirvanshahs were the Yazidids (also known...
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  • (Albumasar) (Book Chapter in Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky ) al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1961) Fusul al-Madani:...
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    language and the region was greatly affected by Iran. According to Vladimir Minorsky: "The presence of Iranian settlers in Transcaucasia, and especially...
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