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AIRYAMAN
M. Boyce
an ancient Iranian divinity and a yazata of the Zoroastrian pantheon, known in Manichean Middle Persian as Aryaman, in Pahlavi as Ērmān.
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AIRYAMAN IŠYA
C. J. Brunner
Gathic Avestan prayer.
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AIWYǠŊHANA
M. F. Kanga
Avestan term “wrapping round, girdle”: (1) a strip from a date-palm leaf used to tie bundle of wires which constitute the barsom, (2) the kusti or sacred girdle.
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ʿAJABŠĪR
ʿA. Kārang
a town and baḵš in East Azerbaijan.
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ʿAJĀʾEB AL-DONYĀ
L. P. Smirnova
(“Wonders of the world” or “Wonderful things”), title of a Persian geography.
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ʿAJĀʾEB AL-MAḴLŪQĀT
C. E. Bosworth, I. Afshar
(“The marvels of created things”), the name of a genre of classical Islamic literature and, in particular, of a work by Zakarīyāʾ b. Moḥammad Qazvīnī.
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ʿAJĀʾEB AL-MAQDŪR
U. Nashashibi
(“The wondrous turns of fate in the vicissitudes of Tīmūr”), a history of the life and conquests of Tīmūr (1336-1405).
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ʿAJAM
C. E. Bosworth
the name given in medieval Arabic literature to the non-Arabs of the Islamic empire, but applied especially to the Persians.
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ʿAJAMĪ
A. A. Kalantarian
6th/12th century architect under the Eldigüzid atabegs, founder of the Nakhchevan architectural school.
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ʿAJEZ, NARAYAN KAUL
A. Mattoo
Kashmiri Brahman of the 17th-18th centuries, a poet and compiler of Moḵtaṣar-e tārīḵ-e Kašmīr (1710-11).