Pahlavi

Last updated February 04, 2026

Pahlavi may refer to:

Iranian royalty

Seven Parthian clans, ruling Parthian families during the Sasanian Empire
Pahlavi dynasty, the ruling house of Imperial State of Persia/Iran from 1925 until 1979
- Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), Shah of Persia from 1925 to 1941
- Hamdamsaltaneh Pahlavi (1903–1992), first child and daughter of Reza Shah
- Shams Pahlavi (1917–1996), elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016), twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
- Ali Reza Pahlavi I (1922–1954), brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, second son of Reza Shah
- Gholamreza Pahlavi (1923–2017), half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last living child of Reza Shah
- Abdul Reza Pahlavi (1924–2004), half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Fatimeh Pahlavi (1928–1987), Reza Shah's tenth child and half-sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- Hamid Reza Pahlavi (1932–1992), Reza Shah's eleventh and last born child, half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- Farah Pahlavi (born 1938), Shahbanu (Empress) of Iran, widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Shahnaz Pahlavi (born 1940), first child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Fawzia Fuad Chirine
- Patrick Ali Pahlavi (born 1947), nephew of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, heir presumptive from 1954 to 1960
- Reza Pahlavi II (born 1960), Crown Prince of Iran, eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Farahnaz Pahlavi (born 1963), first child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi
- Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966–2011), younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi, second in line to the throne.
- Yasmine Pahlavi (born 1968), lawyer and the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran

Language and writing

Parthian language or Arsacid Pahlavi, a now-extinct language spoken in Parthia, Iran
Inscriptional Pahlavi, the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts
Middle Persian, written in the Pahlavi script (including Zoroastrian Middle Persian of the 9th-11th century)
Pahlavi scripts, as adopted to render various Middle Iranian languages
Pahlavi literature, Persian literature of the 1st millennium AD
Pahlavi Psalter, a 12-page non-contiguous section of a Middle Persian translation of a Syriac book of psalms
Psalter Pahlavi, a cursive abjad which was used for writing Middle Persian, described as one of the Pahlavi scripts
Book Pahlavi, more commonly used cursive Middle Iranian abjad, one of the Pahlavi scripts
Fahlavīyāt or Pahlaviyat, poetry written in dialects of Pahla/Fahla region in western Iran, 9th–18th centuries AD

Places

Nanur (Pahlavi Dezh), a village in Nanur Rural District, Kurdistan Province, Iran
Bandar-e Anzali, formerly Pahlavi, a port city in Gilan Province, Iran
Pahlavi Mordab, a coastal lagoon in the Caspian Sea near Bandar-e Anzali
Pahlavi Street, former name of Valiasr Street in Tehran, Iran

Other uses

Order of Pahlavi (Neshan-e Pahlavi), the highest order of the former Imperial State of Iran
Pahlavi Crown, part of the coronation regalia used by the Pahlavi Shahs and part of the Iranian Crown Jewels
Pahlavi hat, an item of headgear for men introduced by Reza Shah
Pahlavi University or Shiraz University, a public university located in Shiraz, Iran
Pahlavas, the Parthians in ancient Indian literature
- Pahlava kingdom, their kingdom as known to the Indians

Pahlavi

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Iranian royalty

Language and writing

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