Table of Contents

• ĀL-E ŠANSAB

  Cross-Reference

  See GHURIDS.

• ĀL-E VARDĀNZŪR

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAKĀN-E YAZD.

• ĀL-E ZĪĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ZIYARIDS.

• ʿALĀʾ

  H. Busse

  vizier of Fārs under the Buyid rulers Šaraf-al-dawla and Ṣamṣām-al-dawla.

• ĀLĀ DĀḠ

  E. Ehlers

  name of a number of mountains in Iran; of Turkish origin, the words mean “colored mountain.”

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA

  Cross-Reference

  See ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR GARŠĀSP.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  (d. 1299/1882), notable of the Qajar tribe and holder of high offices under Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ʿALĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  (511-34/1117-40), ruler of the Espahbadīya line of the local dynasty of the Bavandids in the Caspian region of Māzandarān.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ḎUʾL-QADAR

  R. M. Savory

  early 9th/15th century ruler of Maṛʿaš and Albestān in the kingdom of Little Armenia, east of the Taurus mountains. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ḤASAN B. ROSTAM

  W. Madelung

  B. ʿALĪ B. ŠAHRĪĀR, ŠARAF-AL-MOLŪK, Bavandid ruler of Māzandarān. According to the account of Ebn Esfandīār, he reigned from 558/1163 to 566/1171. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA MOḤAMMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  (d. 433/1041), Daylamī military leader and founder of the shortlived but significant Kakuyid dynasty.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA SEMNĀNĪ

  J. van Ess

  (1261-1336), famous mystic of the Il-khanid period, opponent of the growing influence of Ebn ʿArabī in Iran.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, MĪRZĀ AḤMAD KHAN

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  (d. 1329/1911), the son of Moḥammad Raḥīm Khan ʿAlāʾ-al-dawla.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, ROKN-AL-DĪN MĪRZĀ

  J. Woods

  Timurid prince (820-65/1417-60).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN BĪRJANDĪ

  E. Baer

  a metalworker who lived between the late 15th and the early 16th century.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN JAHĀNSŪZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  called JAHĀNSŪZ, Ghurid sultan and the first ruler of the Šansabānī family to make the Ghurids a major power in the eastern Islamic world (544-56/1149-61).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḴALJĪ

  N. H. Zaidi

  sultan of Delhi (r. 695-715/1296-1316). 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  B. Lewis

  chief of the Ismaʿilis of Alamūt (d. 1255).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ḵᵛārazmšāh who reigned in Transoxania and central and eastern Iran as well as in Ḵᵛārazm, (596-617/1200-20).