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• ĀḠĀJĪ BOḴĀRĪ

  ʿA. Zaryāb

  Samanid amir and poet.

• AḠĀNĪ, KETĀB AL-

  K. Abu-Deeb

  (“The Book of Songs”), the major work of Abu’l-Faraǰ Eṣfahānī (284-356/897-967).

• ĀḠĀSĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀQĀSĪ.

• AGATHANGELOS

  R. W. Thomson

  (Greek for “messenger of good news”), the supposed author of a History of the Armenians, which describes the conversion of King Trdat of Armenia to Christianity at the beginning of the 4th century CE.

• AGATHIAS

  M.-L. Chaumont

  Byzantine historian, b. 536 or 537 in Myrina, a small village in Asia Minor, d. about 580.

• AGIARY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀTAŠKADA.

• ĀḠKAND

  R. Schnyder

  a special kind of pottery, so designated because of a village in southeast Azerbaijan of the same name, where most of it was said to have been found in the 1930s. 

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• ĀḠOŠ VEHĀḎĀN

  A. Tafażżolī

  (Āḡoš son of Vehāḏ), king of Gīlān at the time of Kay Ḵosrow, the Kayanid king, and one of the commanders of his armies.

• AGRA

  G. Hambly

  City and district center in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, situated on the west bank of the river Jumna (Yamonā) approximately 125 miles south of Delhi.

• AḠRĒRAṮ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (Av. Aγraēraθa), Turanian warrior and brother of Afrāsīāb in the Avestan yašts and in the the Šāh-nāma.