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AḴTAR-E KĀVĪĀN
Cross-Reference
See DERAFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN.
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ĀḴŪND
H. Algar
(or ĀḴᵛOND), a word of uncertain etymology with the general meaning of religious scholar. Various Persian origins have been proposed for the word.
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AḴŪND ḴORĀSĀNĪ
A. Hairi, S. Murata
(1255-1329/1839-1911), Shiʿite religious leader.
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ĀḴŪND, ḤĀJJ
Cross-Reference
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ĀḴŪNDZĀDA
H. Algar
(in Soviet usage, AKHUNDOV), Azerbaijani playwright and propagator of alphabet reform (1812-78).
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AKVĀN-E DĪV
DJ. Khaleghi-Motlagh
the demon Akvān, who was killed by Rostam in the Šāh-nāma.
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ĀḴᵛOND
Cross-Reference
See ĀḴŪND.
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AḴYĀR
H. Algar
“the chosen” (Persian, bargozīdagān), a category sometimes encountered in accounts given by Sufi writers of the unseen hierarchy known as reǰāl al-ḡayb (“men of the unseen”).
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ĀL
A. Šāmlū and J. R. Russell
a folkloric being that personifies puerperal fever; the name apparently derives from Iranian āl “red.”
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ĀL TAMḠĀ
G. Doerfer
“red seal,” Turkish term for the supreme seal of the Mongol Il-Khans of Iran.