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ĀS
Mehdi Roschanzamir
a game of playing cards which became popular in the Qajar era, and hence replaced ganjafa, the card game associated with the Safavids.
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ĀS
cross-reference
“Ossetia”; ĀSĪ “Ossetic, Ossete.” See ALANS; ALBANIA; ASII; OSSETIC.
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ĀŠ
W. Eilers, ʿE. Elāhī, M. Boyce
(thick soup), the general term for a traditional Iranian dish comparable to the French potage.
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AṦA
B. Schlerath, P. O. Skjærvø
“truth” in Avestan. The Indo-Iranian concept of truth is preserved in the Gāθās and in the younger Avesta unchanged.
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AṦA VAHIŠTA
cross-reference
See ARDWAHIŠT.
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ASʿAD B. NAṢR
Cross-Reference
See ABZARĪ.
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ASAD B. SĀMĀNḴODĀ
C. E. Bosworth
ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.
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ASADĀBĀD (1)
C. E. Bosworth
name of several towns in medieval sources, including the modern city.
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ASADĀBĀD
D. Balland
(or ASʿADĀBĀD), the official name of a small town in eastern Afghanistan, capital of Konar (Kunar) Province.
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ASADĀBĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR
Cross-Reference
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ASADĀBĀDĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN
Cross-Reference
See AFḠĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN.
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ASADALLĀH EṢFAHĀNĪ
A. S. Melikian-Chirvani
a signature borne by hundreds of fine blades, which is occasionally followed by dates ranging from the 17th to the 19th century.
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ASADĪ ṬŪSĪ
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
(d. 1072-73), poet, linguist and copyist, from Ṭūs in Khorasan.
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ĀṢAF AL-LOḠĀT
M. Dabīrsīāqī
title of a Persian dictionary.
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ĀṢAF KHAN
P. Saran
10th/16th century Mughal official and military commander.
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ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-WAHHĀB
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA, ALLĀHYĀR
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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ĀṢAFĪ HERAVĪ
A. ʿA. Rajāʾī
a minor poet of the Timurid period (d. 923/1517).
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ASAGARTA
W. Eilers
an ancient Iranian tribe of uncertain location; they must have dwelt in the east of the kingdom.
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ASĀLEM
M. Bazin
a mountainous district in Ṭāleš, now a dehestān of the central baḵš of the šahrestān of Ṭawāleš, province of Gīlān.