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AMĪN-AL-ŻARB, ḤAJJ MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN
A. Enayat
(1289-1351/1872-1932), Persian businessman and vice-president of the first Maǰles.
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AMĪN-E ELĀHĪ
Cross-Reference
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AMĪN-E ŠŪRĀ
Cross-Reference
See PĀŠĀ KHAN.
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AMĪNĀ
A. Netzer
pen name of BENYĀMĪN B. MĪŠĀʾĪL KĀŠĀNĪ, an outstanding Jewish poet of Iran.
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AMĪNA AQDAS
G. Nashat
or AMĪN-E AQDAS (d. 1311/1893), one of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah’s most powerful wives.
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AMĪNĀ QAZVĪNĪ
Hameed ud-Din
also known as MĪRZĀ AMĪNA or AMĪNA-YE MONŠĪ, Mughal historian and poet of Shah Jahān’s reign.
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AMĪNĪ, SHAIKH ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN
H. Algar
also known as ʿAllāma-ye Amīnī (1320-90/1902-70), Shiʿite scholar and author of the encyclopedic al-Ḡadīr fi’l-ketāb wa’l-sonna wa’l-adab.
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AMĪNJĪ
I. Poonawala
eminent Ṭayyebī Ismaʿili jurist from Ahmadabad in India (d. 1567).
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AMĪR
C. E. Bosworth
“commander, governor, prince” in Arabic. The term seems to be basically Islamic; although it does not occur in the Koran, we do find there the related concept of the “holders of authority.”
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AMĪR ARSALĀN
W. L. Hanaway, Jr.
a prose romance of the genre dāstānhā-ye ʿammīāna, “popular tales,” composed by Mīrzā Moḥammad ʿAlī Naqīb-al-mamālek, the chief storyteller of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah (r. 1848-96).