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• ĀL-E DĀBŪYA

  Cross-Reference

  See DABUYIDS.

• ĀL-E ELYĀS

  C. E. Bosworth

  a short-lived Iranian dynasty which ruled in the eastern Persian province of Kermān during the 4th/10th century. 

• ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  a minor Iranian dynasty of Gūzgān.

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• ĀL-E FAŻLŪYA

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAKĀN-E LORESTĀN.

• ĀL-E HĀŠEM

  C. Cahen

  3rd-5th/9th-11th century local dynasty of the region of Darband.

• ĀL-E JALĀYER

  Cross-Reference

  See JALAYERIDS.

• ĀL-E ḴAMĪS

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿARAB.

• ĀL-E KART

  B. Spuler

  or perhaps ĀL-E KORT, an east Iranian dynasty (643-791/1245-1389).

• ĀL-E KAṮĪR

  J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī

  an Arab tribe of Ḵūzestān composed of two subtribes, Bayt Saʿd and Bayt Karīm and inhabiting two sectors of Šūš and Dezfūl.

• ĀL-E MAʾMŪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  a short-lived dynasty of Iranian rulers in Ḵᵛārazm, 385-408/995-1017.

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• ĀL-E MĀKŪLĀ

  D. M. Dunlop

  a Persian noble family prominent at Baghdad in the 5th/11th century.

• ĀL-E MĪKĀL

  R. W. Bulliet

  the leading aristocratic family of western Khorasan from the 3rd/9th to the 5th/11th century.

• ĀL-E MOḤTĀJ

  C. E. Bosworth

  a local dynasty, most probably of Iranian origin but conceivably of Iranized Arab stock, who ruled in the principality of Čaḡānīān on the right bank of the upper Oxus in the basin of the Sorḵān river.

• ĀL-E MOẒAFFAR

  Cross-Reference

  See MOZAFFARIDS, forthcoming online.

• ĀL-E ŠANSAB

  Cross-Reference

  See GHURIDS.

• ĀL-E VARDĀNZŪR

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAKĀN-E YAZD.

• ĀL-E ZĪĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ZIYARIDS.

• ĀLĀ DĀḠ

  E. Ehlers

  name of a number of mountains in Iran; of Turkish origin, the words mean “colored mountain.”

• ALA-FIRENG

  Cross-Reference

  See ALĀFRANK.

• ʿALĀʾ

  H. Busse

  vizier of Fārs under the Buyid rulers Šaraf-al-dawla and Ṣamṣām-al-dawla.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA

  Cross-Reference

  See ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR GARŠĀSP.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  (d. 1299/1882), notable of the Qajar tribe and holder of high offices under Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ʿALĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  (511-34/1117-40), ruler of the Espahbadīya line of the local dynasty of the Bavandids in the Caspian region of Māzandarān.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ḎUʾL-QADAR

  R. M. Savory

  early 9th/15th century ruler of Maṛʿaš and Albestān in the kingdom of Little Armenia, east of the Taurus mountains. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ḤASAN B. ROSTAM

  W. Madelung

  B. ʿALĪ B. ŠAHRĪĀR, ŠARAF-AL-MOLŪK, Bavandid ruler of Māzandarān. According to the account of Ebn Esfandīār, he reigned from 558/1163 to 566/1171. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA MOḤAMMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  (d. 433/1041), Daylamī military leader and founder of the shortlived but significant Kakuyid dynasty.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA SEMNĀNĪ

  J. van Ess

  (1261-1336), famous mystic of the Il-khanid period, opponent of the growing influence of Ebn ʿArabī in Iran.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, MĪRZĀ AḤMAD KHAN

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  (d. 1329/1911), the son of Moḥammad Raḥīm Khan ʿAlāʾ-al-dawla.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA, ROKN-AL-DĪN MĪRZĀ

  J. Woods

  Timurid prince (820-65/1417-60).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghurid malek and later sultan, reigned in Ḡūr from Fīrūzkūh as the last of his family there before the extinction of the dynasty by the Ḵᵛārazmšāhs, 599-602/1203-96 and 611-12/1214-15. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN BĪRJANDĪ

  E. Baer

  a metalworker who lived between the late 15th and the early 16th century.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN JAHĀNSŪZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  called JAHĀNSŪZ, Ghurid sultan and the first ruler of the Šansabānī family to make the Ghurids a major power in the eastern Islamic world (544-56/1149-61).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ḴALJĪ

  N. H. Zaidi

  sultan of Delhi (r. 695-715/1296-1316). 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  R. Quiring-Zoche

  naqīb of Isfahan in the Timurid period and ancestor of prominent religious-legal dignitaries of the Safavid period. 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  B. Lewis

  chief of the Ismaʿilis of Alamūt (d. 1255).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ḵᵛārazmšāh who reigned in Transoxania and central and eastern Iran as well as in Ḵᵛārazm, (596-617/1200-20).

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD BOḴĀRĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See BOḴĀRĪ.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN MONAJJEM

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪŠĀH BOḴĀRĪ.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN SAMARQANDĪ

  W. Madelung

  Ḥanafī jurist and Mātorīdī theologian.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-MOLK

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  (d. 23 Jomādā II 1308/4 February 1891), holder of various offices under Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah.

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-MOLK

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Aardakānī

  son of Mīrzā ʿAlī Aṣḡar Mostawfī, governor and minister in the later Qajar period (1258-1344/1842-1925).

• ʿALĀʾ-Al-SALṬANA

  BĀQER ʿĀQELI

  prime minister and diplomat of the late Qajar period (b. ca. 1929, d. 14 Ramażān 1336/23 June 1918). 

• ʿALĀʾ-AL-SALṬANA

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  Qajar diplomat and minister (d. 14 Ramażān 1336/23 June 1918).

• ALĀFRANK

  D. O. Morgan

  or ALA-FIRENG, the eldest son of the Il-khan Geiḵatu (r. 690-94/1291-95).

• ALAK-DOLAK

  H. Javadi

  the game of tipcat, played for centuries in Iran, Afghanistan, and surrounding countries.

• ʿĀLAM II, SHAH

  S. S. Alvi

  Mughal emperor (1173-1253/1759-1806).

• ʿALAM KHAN

  J. R. Perry

  viceroy of the Afsharid state of Khorasan, 1161-68/1748-54.  

• ʿALAM VA ʿALĀMAT

  J. Calmard, J. W. Allan

  banner; more particularly, the banners carried in religious processions.

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• ʿALAM, Moḥammad Ebrāhim

  Hormoz Davarpanah

  (1881-1944), one of the most eminent local magnates and landowners of the late Qajar and early Pahlavi period.