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Shahanshah
see also [[Shah]]
[[Image:proskynesis.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Darius I the Great]]
'''Shāh''' "king", and '''Shāhanshāh''' "[[king of kings]]", two ''different'' imperial titles in [[Persian]] and [[Iranian|Iranian culture]].

(contracted; show full)sed by religious authorities (''for details, see LAKAB and the literature cited there''), but after the fall of the Buyids it does not seem to have figured in official protocol until the 20th century, when it was adopted by the "[[Pahlavi]]" dynasty. It has, however, always been used quite freely by poets. Thus the [[Ghaznavid]] Mas’ud I, who would hardly have tolerated such a sacrilegious title in his official documents, had evidently no scruples about his court Persian poet 
[[Manuchehri]] addressing him as ''shāhanshāh, shāhanshāh-i donyā, shah-i mālikan'' and the like, and similar expressions are used by the [[panegyrists]] of the Iranianized-Seljuks and others Iranian dynasties after them.



==References==
''Given in the article''

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