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khan

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as in shah

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Recent Examples of khan The Nizari imams claim direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed; it has been rumored that the current khan’s personal fortune is $13.3 billion. —

John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Her tribe also elected her as its khan, its leader, after her father died. —

Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024 As Russia, under the rule of the Mongol khans, missed the European Renaissance, so, too, had Putin missed the romantic period of perestroika. —

Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023 William does not explain Batu’s decision, but presumably Batu, as a regional leader, handled all domestic matters related to his own jurisdiction but had to refer matters of international diplomacy to the great khan. —

Valerie Hansen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

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But as Anderson, a war correspondent who has covered conflicts in the Middle East and beyond, shows in this thrilling account, nothing about the final months of the reign of the shah appears settled or inevitable.

— The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
During the shah’s reign, filmmakers wrapped their civic appraisals in allegory, like Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 Iranian New Wave classic, The Cow, about how a cow’s death spins its owner into unhinged chaos.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025