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• ĀḠĀJĪ

  ʿA. Zaryāb

  title of a court official in the administrations of the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs.

• 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

  (b. 536/ 537-d. about 580), Byzantine historian. Among other matters, Agathias’s History treats the war which was fought between Justinian and Xusraw I (Chosroes) in Lazica in 552-56. The work contains much information of interest on the Persians in general and the Sasanians in particular.

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• AGIARY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀTAŠKADA.

• ĀḠKAND

  R. Schnyder

  This ware was made by local workshops in the time of the Eldigüzids. Nothing indicates that the production survived the Mongol invasions of Azerbaijan, though similar pottery continued to be produced in the 7th/13th century in east Anatolia and north Syria.

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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.