Table of Contents

• AḤMAD SOLṬĀN AFŠĀR

  R. M. Savory

  Qizilbāš amir in the Safavid service.  

• AḤMAD TABRĪZĪ

  İ. Aka

  Persian poet (first half of the 8th/14th century).

• AḤMAD TAKŪDĀR

  P. Jackson

  third il-khan of Iran (r. 680-83/1282-84), seventh son of Hülegü.

• AḤMAD TŪNĪ

  J. van Ess

  Karrāmī theologian who lived about 400/1010.  

• AḤMAD YĀDGĀR

  Hameed-ud-Din

  10th/16th century historian of the Afghans in India.

• AḤMAD, NEẒĀM-AL-DIN

  Erika Glassen

  vizier and amir under the Timurids (d. 912/1507).

• AḤMAD-E ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ.

• AḤMAD-E JĀM

  H. Moayyad

  a Conservative Sufi with unreserved loyalty to the Šarīʿa (1049 -1141).

• AḤMAD-E ḴĀNI

  F. Shakely

  (1061-1119/1650-1707), a distinguished Kurdish poet, mystic, scholar, and intellectual who is regarded by some as the founder of Kurdish nationalism.

• AHMADABAD

  L. A. Desai

  Major city of Gujarat state in western India and a former center of Persian culture.