Table of Contents

• AḤSAN AL-TAQĀSĪM

  C. E. Bosworth

  a celebrated geographical work in Arabic written towards the end of the 4th/10th century.

• AḤSAN AL-TAWĀRĪḴ

  ʿA. Navāʾī

  a chronological history of Iran and the neighboring countries written by Ḥasan Beg Rūmlū (b. 937/1530-31), a qūṛčī in the service of the Safavid Shah Ṭahmāsb.

• AHU

  B. Schlerath

  two homonymous Avestan terms: (1) “Existence, life” in a range of religious phrases, (2) “Lord, overlord,” linked with ratu- “lord, judge.”

• ĀHŪ

  B. P. O’Regan, H. Javadi

  Two species of gazelle occur in Iran, Gazella sub-gutturosa and G. dorcas.

• AHUNWAR

  C. J. Brunner

  Middle Persian form of Avestan Ahuna Vairya, name of the most sacred of the Gathic prayers.

• AHURA

  F. B. J. Kuiper

  designation of a type of deity inherited by Zoroastrianism from the prehistoric Indo-Iranian religion.

• AHURA MAZDĀ

  M. Boyce

  the Avestan name with title of a great divinity of the Old Iranian religion, who was subsequently proclaimed by Zoroaster as God.

• AHURA.ṰKAĒŠA

  M. Boyce

  an infrequent Avestan adjective meaning “following the Ahuric doctrine.”

• AHURĀNĪ

  B. Schlerath

  feminine deity of the waters.

• AHVĀZ

  C. E. Bosworth, X. De Planhol, J. Lerner

  a town of southwestern Iran.