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ALAMŪT
B. Hourcade
a high, isolated valley in the Alborz 35 km northeast of Qazvīn, the center of an autonomous Ismaʿili state.
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ALAMŪT DIALECTS
Cross-Reference
See QAZVĪN DIALECTS.
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ALANS
V. I. Abaev, H. W. Bailey
an ancient Iranian tribe of the northern (Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, Massagete) group, known to classical writers from the first centuries CE.
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ĀLĀT
F. M. Kotwal and J. W. Boyd
“utensils,” for Parsis the “sacred apparatus” employed in Zoroastrian rituals.
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ALAVI, BOZORG
Ḥasan Mirʿābedini
(1904-1997), leftist writer and one of the most noted Persian novelists of the 20th century, whose works were banned in Iran from 1953 to 1979.
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ʿALAWAYH
D. M. Dunlop
AL-AʿSAR (“the Left-handed”), a noted singer at the ʿAbbasid court under Hārūn al-Rašīd and his successors, ca. 184-230/800-54.
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ʿALAWĪ
W. Kadi
the nesba used to denote descendants, political states, or sects connected with one or another ʿAli; more particularly, it is employed to refer to a Shiʿite sect centered today in Syria.
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ʿALAWĪ, ABD-AL-KARĪM
Cross-Reference
See ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ʿALAVĪ.
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ʿALAWĪ, AḤMAD
Cross-Reference
See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.
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ʿALAWĪS
Cross-Reference
OF ṬABARESTĀN, DAYLAMĀN, AND GĪLĀN. See ʿALIDS.