Table of Contents

• AMLĀK-E ḴĀṢṢA

  Cross-Reference

  See ḴĀLEṢA.

• AMLAŠ

  Multiple Authors

  i. Geography.  ii. Excavations.

• AMLAŠ ii. Excavations

  R. H. Dyson

  small village in southeastern Gilān which, since 1959, has given its name to a large assortment of archeological artifacts derived from illegal, clandestine excavations in the nearby valleys of the Alborz range.

• AMLAŠ i. Geography

  Marcel Bazin

  small town and district in the southeastern part of Gilān Province.

• ʿĀMMA

  E. Kohlberg

  (pl. ʿawāmm), a common Emāmī Shiʿite appellation for the Sunnites. 

• ʿAMMĀRA

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿAMĀRA.

• ʿAMMĀRLŪ

  P. Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of Gīlān and Khorasan. 

• AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

  M. L. Chaumont

  historian who provides important information on the Sasanians (b. ca. 330-35).

• AMMITMANYA

  M. Mayrhoffer

  an Iranian, to whom were entrusted 215 (?) BAR of grain provided for provisions at Tukraš.

• AMMŌ, MĀR

  J. P. Asmussen

  Manichean apostle, outstanding figure in the missionary history of Manicheism during the 3rd century CE.