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AHMADNAGAR
Z. A. Desai
major city and province in the state of Maharashtra in western India, founded about 900/1495 by Malek Aḥmad Neẓām-al-molk, a Bahmanī governor, on the site where he had earlier won a battle against his sovereign’s forces.
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AḤMADNAGARĪ, ʿABD-AL-NABĪ
Cross-Reference
See ʿABD-AL-NABĪ.
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AḤMADPURĪ, GOL MOḤAMMAD
K. A. Nizami
(d. 1243/1827), a Panjabi saint and Češtī hagiographer.
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AḤMADZĪ
C. M. Kieffer
“descendants of Aḥmad” (sing. Aḥmadzay), a Paṧtō clan and tribal name.
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AḤRĀR
C. E. Bosworth
(or BANU’L-AḤRĀR), in Arabic literally “the free ones,” a name applied by the Arabs at the time of the Islamic conquests to their Persian foes in Iraq and Iran.
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AḤRĀR, ḴᵛĀJA ʿOBAYDALLĀH
J. M. Rogers
(806-96/1404-90), influential Naqšbandī of Transoxania.
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AHRIMAN
J. Duchesne-Guillemin
"demon," God’s adversary in the Zoroastrian religion.
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AHRIŠWANG
B. Schlerath
a learned transcription of the Avestan nominative Ašiš vaŋuhī, the goddess “Good Recompense.”
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AḤSĀʾĪ, SHAIKH AḤMAD
D. M. MacEoin
(1753-1826), Shiʿite ʿālem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Šayḵī school of Shiʿism in Iran and Iraq.
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AḤSAN AL-TAQĀSĪM
C. E. Bosworth
a celebrated geographical work in Arabic written towards the end of the 4th/10th century.