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AḴESTĀN
Ż. Sajjādī
a late 12th-century ruler of the Šervānšāh dynasty, patron of the poet Ḵāqānī Šervānī.
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AKHAVAN-E SALESS, MEHDI
Saeid Rezvani
prominent poet who holds a place of distinction between the followers of classical Persian prosody and the modernists (1928-1990).
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ʿAKKĀS-BĀŠĪ
F. Gaffary
photographer and pioneer motion-picture cameraman (1874-1915).
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AḴLĀQ
F. Rahman
“ethics” (plural form of ḵoloq “inborn character, moral character, moral virtue”).
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AḴLĀQ AL-AŠRĀF
P. Sprachman
(“The ethics of the aristocracy”), a satire composed in 740/1340-41, the most important work of ʿObayd Zākānī.
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AḴLĀQ-E JALĀLĪ
G. M. Wickens
an “ethical” treatise in Persian by Moḥammad b. Asʿad Jalāl-al-dīn Davāni (15th century).
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AḴLĀQ-E MOḤSENĪ
G. M. Wickens
an ostensibly serious treatise on ethics by the prolific prose-stylist Kamāl-al-dīn Ḥosayn Wāʿeẓ Kāšefī, completed in 900/1494-95.
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AḴLĀQ-E NĀṢERĪ
G. M. Wickens
by Ḵᵛāǰa Naṣīr-al-dīn Ṭūsī, the principal treatise in Persian on ethics, economics, and politics, first published according to the author in 633/1235.
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AḴLĀṬ
C. E. Bosworth, H. Crane
a town and medieval Islamic fortress in eastern Anatolia.
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AḴNŪḴ
J. P. Asmussen
Enoch, in Manichean texts. According to the Cologne Mani Codex, the outstanding Greek Mani-vita, the prophet grew up in a Judeo-Christian environment, in the sect founded by Elkhasai in Eastern Syria about 100 CE.