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AMĀNAT KHAN ŠĪRĀZĪ
W. E. Begley
When Shah Jahān’s wife Momtāz Maḥall died in childbirth (17 Ḏu’l-qaʿda 1040/17 June 1631), ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq was appointed to select the Koranic passages and design the calligraphy for her tomb. One year later, the emperor honored him with the title Amānat Khan and promoted him to the manṣab rank of 900.
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AMĀNI
Fabrizio Speziale
pen name of Amān-Allāh Khan, Ḵān-e Zamān, an Indo-Muslim physician and author of works on medicine (d. 1637).
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ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ
J. Matīnī
Having attained a degree of literary prowess in his home of Bokhara he went to the Qarakhanid court in Samarkand in 460/1068.
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ĀMĀR
Cross-Reference
See DEMOGRAPHY.
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AMAR NĀTH
B. Ahmad
Persian writer and poet of the Punjab under the Sikhs (1822-67).
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ʿAMĀRA MARVAZĪ
J. Matīnī
Persian poet of the late Samanid/early Ghaznavid periods.
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AMARANTH
Cross-Reference
See BOSTĀNAFRŪZ.
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ĀMĀRGAR
D. N. MacKenzie, M. L. Chaumont
a Middle and New Persian word designating a person holding a particular administrative post.
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AʿMAŠ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD
E. Kohlberg
SOLAYMĀN B. MEḤRĀN ASADĪ (in some sources, erroneously, Azdī) KĀHELĪ KŪFĪ, 1st-2nd/7th-8th century Shiʿite scholar, traditionist, and Koran reader.
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AMASYA, PEACE OF
M. Köhbach
(8 Raǰab 962/29 May 1555), treaty signed between Iran and the Ottomans and observed for some twenty years.