ʿAlīzāda, Ghazāla - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ghazāla ʿAlīzāda (1947-96) was born in Mashhad, the only child of a wealthy family. Her father was a merchant and her mother a writer who hosted literary circles with prominent writers of the time. ʿAlīzāda studied at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Tehran University, and in Paris. She married twice, had a daughter, and adopted two girls. ʿAlīzāda began in the late 1960s to publish short stories in the magazine Ārash (named from a popular heroic archer in Iranian legend). Jalāl Āl-i Aḥmad (d. 1969),