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• ʿALI MARDĀN KHAN

  Mehrnoush Soroush

  (d. Lahore, 1657), military leader and administrator under Safavid kings Shah ʿAbbās I and Shah Ṣafi, and Mughal ruler Shah Jahān.

• ʿALĪ MĪRZĀ

  R. M. Savory

  (d. 899/1494), eldest son of Shaikh Ḥaydar, head of the Safavid ṭarīqa, and ʿAlamšāh Begom, daughter of the Āq Qoyunlū ruler Uzun Ḥasan.

• ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ

  M. Baqir

  Saint and Hadith scholar of India (885-975/1481-1567).

• ʿALĪ QĀʾENĪ

  D. Pingree

  mathematician.

• ʿALĪ QĀʾENĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  usually known as SOLṬĀN-ʿALĪ, calligrapher active in Herat and Tabrīz during the late 9th/15th and early 10th/16th centuries.

• ʿĀLĪ QĀPŪ

  P. P. Soucek

  a five-storied building overlooking the Maydān-e Šāh of Isfahan.

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• ʿALĪ QŪŠJĪ

  F. Rahman, D. Pingree

  (QŪŠJŪ), theologian and scientist (d. 879/1474). 

• ʿALĪ TABRĪZĪ (woodcarver)

  H. Crane

  15th-century woodcarver.

• ʿALĪ, AMĪR SAYYED

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ AL-AʿLĀ.

• ʿALĪ, ḴᵛĀJA

  H. Horst

  also known as SAYYED ʿALĪ ʿAJAMĪ (b. ca. 770/1368-69, d. 830/1427 or 832/1429), an ancestor of the Safavid royal family, the son of Shaikh Ṣadr-al-dīn and grandson of Shaikh Ṣafī-al-dīn Ardabīlī. 

• ʿĀLĪ, NEʿMAT KHAN

  M. U. Memon

  Satirist, historian, and Persian poet of Mughal India (d. 1121/1709-10).

• ʿALĪʾ-AL-DĪN ATSÏZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  a late and short-reigned sultan of the Ghurid dynasty in Afghanistan (607-11/1210-14).

• ʿALĪ-AṢḠAR KHAN AMĪN-AL-SOLṬĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAK-E AʿẒAM.

• ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD KHAN BAHĀDOR

  Hameed ud-Din

  Historian of the Mughals and author of Merʾāt-e Aḥmadī (ca. 1111/1700-1177/1763).

• ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD ḴORĀSĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  MĪRZĀ. See EBN AṢDAQ.

• ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See BĀBISM.

• ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD WARQĀ

  Cross-Reference

  MĪRZĀ. See WARQĀ.

• ʿALĪ-MORĀD KHAN ZAND

  J. R. Perry

  (r. 1195-99/1781-85), fourth of the Zand rulers.

• ʿALĪ-NAQĪ

  R. Skelton

  a Safavid miniature painter, whose works follow the manner of his father, Shaikh ʿAbbāsī; he is known from the inscriptions on seven paintings dated between 1684-85 and 1700-01.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ JOBBA-DĀR

  P. P. Soucek

  painter active in Qazvīn and Isfahan during the late 11th/17th and early 12th/18th centuries.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN (MOṢṬAFĀ PASHA)

  D. M. Lang

  later known as MOṢṬAFĀ PASHA (ca. 1680-1727), Safavid (later Ottoman) wālī or viceroy of Kʿarṭʿli (Georgia), residing at Tiflis.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN

  A. Amanat

  (d. 1240/1824-25), the youngest of nine sons of Moḥammad Ḥasan Khan Qāǰār and half brother of Āḡā (more correctly Āqā) Moḥammad Khan.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN AFŠĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿĀDEL SHAH.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN ANṢĀRĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ANṢĀRĪ.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN MOḴBER-AL-DAWLA

  Cross-Reference

  See MOḴBER-AL-DAWLA.

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN ŠĀMLŪ

  R. N. Savory

  (d. 977/1589), Safavid governor of Herat and guardian of the future Shah ʿAbbās I. 

• ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN WĀLEH

  W. Kirmani

  Persian poet at the Mughal court (1124-69/1712-56).

• ʿALĪ-REŻĀ ABBĀSĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  10th-11th/16th-17th century calligrapher born and trained in Tabrīz but active principally in Qazvīn and Isfahan.

• ʿALĪ-REŻĀ KHAN QĀJĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See AŻOD-AL-MOLK.

• ʿALĪ-ŠĪR NAVĀʾĪ, AMĪR

  Cross-Reference

  See NAVĀʾĪ.

• ʿALIDS

  W. Madelung

  OF ṬABARESTĀN, DAYLAMĀN, AND GĪLĀN. From its beginnings in 250/864 until the early Safavid age, ʿAlid rule in the coastal regions south of the Caspian Sea was based chiefly on Zaydī Shiʿite support.

• ʿALĪKOŠ

  F. Hole

  an archeological site dating to the 8th millennium B.C. in southwestern Iran, near the modern town of Deh Lorān.

• ʿALĪŠĀH BOḴĀRĪ

  D. Pingree

  7th/13th century astronomer.

• ʿALĪŠĀH, TĀJ-AL-DĪN

  B. Spuler

  vizier of the two Il-khans Ölǰeytü (r. 703-17/1304-16) and Abū Saʿīd (r. 717-36/1317-35).

• ʿALĪTIGIN

  C. E. Bosworth

  the usual name in the sources for ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN or HĀRŪN BOḠRA KHAN, member of the Hasanid or eastern branch of the Qarakhanid family, ruler in Transoxania during the early 5th/11th century (d. 425/1034).

• ALIZADEH, Ghazaleh

  Ḥasan Mirʿābedini

  (1947-1996), noted novelist and short story writer.

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• ʿALLĀF

  Cross-Reference

  See ABU’L-HOḎAYL.

• ALLĀH-QOLĪ KHAN ĪLḴĀNĪ

  A. Amanat

  Qajar notable (ca. 1236-1309/1820-1892).

• ALLAHABAD

  Z. A. Desai

  Major city and headquarters of a district of the same name in Uttar Pradesh, India at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

• ALLĀHDĪĀ ČEŠTĪ

  G. Sarwar

  Mughal author of Sīar al-aqṭāb, a biography of the masters of the Ṣāberī Češtī Sufi order (17th century).

• ALLĀHO AKBAR, KŪH-E

  E. Ehlers

  a mountain range that forms part of the northern rim of the Khorasan trench in northeastern Iran, to the north of the city of Qūčān.  

• ALLĀHVERDĪ KHAN (1)

  R. M. Savory

  (d.1022/1613), a Georgian ḡolām who rose to high office in the Safavid state. 

• ALLĀHVERDĪ KHAN (2)

  C. Fleischer

  (d. 1072/1662), son of Ḵosrow Khan (d. 1063/1653), a Safavid ḡolām of Armenian origin.

• ALLĀHYĀR KHAN

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀFĪ, ALLĀHYĀR KHAN.

• ALLĀHYĀR KHAN ABDĀLĪ

  J. R. Perry

  a chieftain of the important Afghan tribe of the Abdālī (later known as the Dorrānī).

• ALLĀHYĀR KHAN ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA.

• ALLĀHYĀR KHAN QELĪČĪ

  A. Amanat

  (b. ca. 1150/1735-36), khan of the Qelīča, a minor Turkish tribe in northern Khorasan, and ruler of Sabzevār at the turn of the 19th century.

• ʿALLĀMĪ, ABU’L-FAŻL

  Cross-Reference

  Historian, officer, chief secretary, and confidant of the Mughal emperor Akbar I; see ABU’L-FAŻL ʿALLĀMĪ.

• ALLIANCE ISRAĒLITE UNIVERSELLE

  A. Netzer

  the first worldwide Jewish organization, through which a number of Jewish schools were founded in Iran.

• ALMOND

  Cross-Reference

  See BĀDĀM.