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• AHVĀZ ii. The Modern City

  X. De Planhol

  The city has a grid plan adapted to the bends of the Kārūn river. Its heart is on the left bank of the Kārūn; a new quarter has been added on the right bank, where the railway station has been located. Besides the railway bridge an imposing road bridge links the two river banks.

• AHVĀZ iii. Monuments

  J. Lerner

  Little of architectural interest appears to have survived from the medieval period, but a few structures in old Ahvāz and the new city are remnants of various historical and structural happenings.

• AHVAZ iv. Population, 1956-2011

  Mohammad Hossein Nejatian

  This article deals with the following population characteristics of Ahvaz: population growth from 1956 to 2011, age structure, average household size, literacy rate, and economic activity status.

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• AHVĀZĪ

  D. Pingree

  a 4th/10th century mathematician.

• AHVĀZĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN

  Cross-Reference

  See ABU’L-ḤASAN AHWĀZĪ.

• ĀĪN GOŠASP

  A. Tafażżolī

  a general of Hormazd IV (A.D. 579-590), sent by him to campaign against the rebellious general Bahrām Čūbīn.

• ĀĪN-E AKBARĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See AKBAR-NĀMA.

• ĀĪN-NĀMA

  A. Tafażżolī

  Arabic and New Persian form of Middle Persian ēwēn nāmag (“book of manners”), a general term for texts dealing with the exposition of manners, customs, skills, and arts and sciences.

• ĀĪNA-KĀRĪ

  Eleanor G. Sims

  the practice of covering an architectural surface with a mosaic of mirror-glass.

• ĀĪNA-YE ḠAYBNOMĀ

  L. P. Elwell-Sutton

  “The Revealing Mirror,” a fortnightly illustrated magazine which began publication in Tehran on 22 Jomādā I 1325/3 July 1907, edited by Sayyed ʿAbd-al-Raḥīm Kāšānī.