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• ʿAJABŠĪR

  ʿA. Kārang

  a town and baḵš in East Azerbaijan. 

• ʿAJĀʾEB AL-DONYĀ

  L. P. Smirnova

  (“Wonders of the world” or “Wonderful things”), title of a Persian geography.

• ʿAJĀʾEB AL-MAḴLŪQĀT

  C. E. Bosworth, I. Afshar

  (“The marvels of created things”), the name of a genre of classical Islamic literature and, in particular, of a work by Zakarīyāʾ b. Moḥammad Qazvīnī.

• ʿAJĀʾEB AL-MAQDŪR

  U. Nashashibi

  (“The wondrous turns of fate in the vicissitudes of Tīmūr”), a history of the life and conquests of Tīmūr (1336-1405).

• ʿAJAM

  C. E. Bosworth

  the name given in medieval Arabic literature to the non-Arabs of the Islamic empire, but applied especially to the Persians.

• ʿAJAMĪ

  A. A. Kalantarian

  6th/12th century architect under the Eldigüzid atabegs, founder of the Nakhchevan architectural school.

• ʿAJEZ, NARAYAN KAUL

  A. Mattoo

  Kashmiri Brahman of the 17th-18th centuries, a poet and compiler of Moḵtaṣar-e tārīḵ-e Kašmīr (1710-11).

• ĀJĪ ČĀY

  E. Ehlers

  (Talḵa-rūd, “Bitter river”), a river which flows into Lake Urumia. 

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• ʿAJIB MĀZANDARĀNI

  M. Dabirsiāqi

  19th-century poet of the Qajar court.

• ĀJĪL

  M. Kasheff

  an assortment of nuts, roasted chickpeas and seeds such as watermelon, pumpkin, and pear, and raisins and other dried fruits.

• AJINA TEPE

  B. A. Litvinskiĭ

  the present-day name of the mound covering the ruins of an early medieval Buddhist monastery.

• AJMER

  F. Lehmann

  (Aǰmēr, from Skt. Ajayameru), a city in Rajasthan, western India, of great strategic, commercial, and cultural importance from the 6th/12th to the 12th/18th centuries.

• ĀJOR

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• ĀJŪDĀN-BĀŠĪ

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  a Persian term translating the French military title adjudant-en-chef; aide and deputy to the army commander during the Qajar period.

• ĀKAUFAČIYĀ

  R. Schmitt

  name of a tribe resident in the southeastern part of the Achaemenid empire.

• AḴAWAYNĪ BOḴĀRĪ

  H. H. Biesterfeldt

  4th/10th century physician who worked in Bukhara.

• AḴBĀR AL-AḴYĀR

  B. Lawrence

  The most reliable taḏkera of early Indian Sufis, by Shaikh ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq Moḥaddeṯ Dehlavī (d. 1052/1642).

• AḴBĀR AL-DAWLAT AL-SALJŪQĪYA

  C. E. Bosworth

  An Arabic chronicle on the history of the Great Saljuq dynasty in Iran and Iraq.

• AḴBĀR AL-ṬEWĀL, KETĀB AL-

  C. E. Bosworth

  (“The book of the long historical narratives”), title of a historical work by the Persian writer of ʿAbbasid times Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd b. Wanand Dīnavarī.

• AKBAR FATḤALLĀH

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  prime minister of Iran from Ābān, 1299 Š./October, 1920 to Esfand, 1299 Š./February, 1921.