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• AJINA TEPE

  B. A. Litvinskiĭ

  the present-day name of the mound covering the ruins of an early medieval Buddhist monastery.

• AJMER

  F. Lehmann

  (Aǰmēr, from Skt. Ajayameru), a city in Rajasthan, western India, of great strategic, commercial, and cultural importance from the 6th/12th to the 12th/18th centuries.

• ĀJOR

  Cross-Reference

  See BRICK.

• ĀJŪDĀN-BĀŠĪ

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  a Persian term translating the French military title adjudant-en-chef; aide and deputy to the army commander during the Qajar period.

• ĀKAUFAČIYĀ

  R. Schmitt

  name of a tribe resident in the southeastern part of the Achaemenid empire.

• AḴAWAYNĪ BOḴĀRĪ

  H. H. Biesterfeldt

  4th/10th century physician who worked in Bukhara.

• AḴBĀR AL-AḴYĀR

  B. Lawrence

  The most reliable taḏkera of early Indian Sufis, by Shaikh ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq Moḥaddeṯ Dehlavī (d. 1052/1642).

• AḴBĀR AL-DAWLAT AL-SALJŪQĪYA

  C. E. Bosworth

  An Arabic chronicle on the history of the Great Saljuq dynasty in Iran and Iraq.

• AḴBĀR AL-ṬEWĀL, KETĀB AL-

  C. E. Bosworth

  (“The book of the long historical narratives”), title of a historical work by the Persian writer of ʿAbbasid times Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad b. Dāwūd b. Wanand Dīnavarī.

• AKBAR FATḤALLĀH

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  prime minister of Iran from Ābān, 1299 Š./October, 1920 to Esfand, 1299 Š./February, 1921.