: Moghadam argues that the structural changes to Iran, including the land reforms, initiated by the White Revolution, contributed to the revolution in 1979 which overthrew the Shah and turned Iran into an Islamic republic.

Sociologist Charles Kurzman argues that rather than being indecisive, or sympathetic to the revolution, the Carter administration was consistently supportive of the Shah and urged the Iranian military to stage a " last-resort coup d ' etat " even after the regime's cause was hopeless.

Isa Muhammad Effendi or Ustad Isa ( translation Master Isa ( Jesus in Arabic )) was a Persian architect from Iran he and his colleague Ismail Effendi entered the service of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV and the Mughals exchanged ambassadors.

Idries Shah, who was personal secretary and close friend of Gerald Gardner, provides yet another etymology from an alleged Arabic al-dhammé " blood-letter ", which was supposed to be the ritual knife of a medieval magical cult of Morocco and Andalusia.

Robert Graves ( an acquaintance of Shah ) suggests an Arabic derivation from al thame ( or adh-dhame ), which he translates as " the arrow ".

Idries Shah ( 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996 ) (, ), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi ( Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي ), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.

The name is simply the Arabic adaptation of a pre-Islamic Persian title, vichir ( Middle Persian for Vizier ), who was a minister to the Shah.

As per the challenge, Per Meher Ali Shah was to write a commentary on the opening chapter of the Quran in Arabic.

Zaman Shah Durrani, ( Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ), ( c. 1770 – 1844 ) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1793 until 1800.

Mahmud Shah Durrani ( 1769 – April 18, 1829 ; Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ) was born Prince and ruler of the Durrani Empire ( Afghanistan ) between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818.

Timur Shah Durrani, ( Pashto, Persian, Urdu, Arabic: ; 1748 – May 18, 1793 ) was the second ruler of the Durrani Empire from October 16, 1772, until his death in 1793.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq, a Sultan of Delhi, founded Hisar in 1354 and named it Hisar-e-Firoza which means Fort of Firoz in Arabic.

Sultan Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah was a scholar of Arabic and Persian.

Hussein Shah, after this victory declared them self as the Conqueror of Kamru or Kamruf ( In Arabic alphabet there is no P, hence the Muslim rulers mention Kamrup as Kamru or Kamruf ).

He made observations from 825 to 835, and compiled three astronomical tables: the first were still in the Hindu manner ; the second, called the ' tested " tables, were the most important ; they are likely identical with the " Ma ' munic " or " Arabic " tables and may be a collective work of al-Ma ' mun's astronomers ; the third, called tables of the Shah, were smaller.

His name at birth was Ahmed Shah ; he took the name " Massoud " as a nom de guerre when he went into the resistance movement in 1974.

His servant, Jauhar, records in the Tadhkirat al-Waqiat that he was known to shoot arrows to the sky marked with either his own name, or that of the Shah of Persia and, depending on how they landed, interpreted this as an indication of which of them would grow more powerful.

Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin Following the Shahmiri Dynasty, was the Chak Dynasty that ruled until Mughal conquest in 1586.

* 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means ' Land of the Aryans.

The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian, meaning " Ruler of Everywhere ".

He was presumably a distant descendant of Scrooge Shah, the last King of Sagbad ( a pun on the name of Baghdad ).

* April 25 – Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name " Pahlevi ".

I want the name to change so that Pathans may be identified on the map of Pakistan ... was the 3, 000 year old name of this area: the name used by Ahmed Shah Abdali who said he forgot everything including the throne of Delhi but not Pakhtunkhwa ".

Persian Shah should not be confused with the Indian family name of Shah prevalent in Western India which is also derived from Sanskrit but from a different word Sadhu and the Prakrit word Sahu.

* Shah is a widespread name in Iran and the Indian subcontinent.

* Maq ' ad-i-Shah ( Persian مقعد شاه Maq ' ad-i-Shah ), the phrase from which the name of Mogadishu is believed to be derived, which means " The seat of the Shah ", a reflection of the city's early Persian influence.

* Last name: Shah at surnamedb. com

There is a permanent salt lake, Lake Urmia ( the traditional name, also cited as Lake Urmiyeh, to which it has reverted after being called Lake Rezaiyeh under Mohammad Reza Shah ), in the northwest, whose brine content is too high to support fish or most other forms of aquatic life.

Turanshah ( Shah of Turan ) is also the name of the brother of Saladin.

Its current name was chosen by the then state Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, after his late father Sultan Alam Shah.

Pakicetus was the first discovered in 1983 by Philip Gingerich, Neil Wells, Donald Russell, and S. M. Ibrahim Shah, and all species are known only from a few sites in Pakistan, hence the name of the first genera and the family as a whole.

Later some record suggested that during the trade activities and arrival of the Chinese-Muslim admiral " Cheng Ho " or Zheng He, Parameswara converted to Islam and adopted an Islamic name, Sultan Iskandar Shah.

According to Frederic Lamond, Bracelin's name was used because Shah " did not want to confuse his Sufi students by being seen to take an interest in another esoteric tradition.

Parameswara converted to Islam in order to marry the daughter of Pasai, and changed his name to Sultan Iskandar Shah.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

Shah Khalil Allah moved to Yazd in 1815, probably out of concern for his Indian followers, who used to travel to Persia to see their Imam and for whom Yazd was a much closer and safer destination than Kahak.

Two years later, in 1817, Shah Khalil Allah was killed during a conflict between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

Unfortunately, the family was left unprovided for after a conflict between the local Nizaris and Imani Khan Farahani, who had been married to one of the late Imam's daughters Shah Bibi and who had been in charge of the Imam's land holdings.

Hasan Ali Shah thus become known as Aga Khan Mahallati, and the title of Aga Khan was inherited by his successors.

Until Fath Ali Shah's death in 1834, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah enjoyed a quiet life and was held in high esteem at the Qajar court.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

When it was clear that continuing the resistance was of little use, Hasan Ali Shah sent one of his brothers to Shiraz in order to speak to the governor of Fars to intervene on his behalf and arrange for safe passage out of Kerman.

He was eventually allowed to go to Tehran near the end of 1838-39 where he was able to present his case before the Shah.

Hasan Ali Shah was on a hunting trip at the time, but he sent a messenger to request permission of the monarch to go to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage.

Hajji Mirza Aqasi sent a messenger to Bahman Mirza to inform him of the spuriousness of Hasan Ali Shah's documents and a battle between Bahman Mīrzā and Hasan Ali Shah broke out in which Bahman Mirza was defeated.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.