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• AMMŌ, MĀR

  J. P. Asmussen

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

• AMOGHAPĀŚAHṚDAYA

  R. E. Emmerick

  “the heart or essence of the Amoghapāśa ritual,” the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahayanist Tantric tradition. 

• ĀMOL

  C. E. Bosworth, S. Blair, E. Ehlers

  a town on the Caspian shore in the southwest of the modern province of Māzandarān, medieval Ṭabarestān.

• ĀMOL (ĀMŪYA)

  C. E. Bosworth

   town situated three miles from the left bank of the Oxus river (Āmū Daryā).

• AMOL WARE

  Y. Crowe

  Amol wares are mainly fine bowls with flaring walls and straight rims and larger dishes with flattened, everted, or straight rims. Some of these have been greatly restored, so that they feel much heavier than they once were, and their coarser base rings lack the sureness of potting that typifies better-preserved specimens.

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• ĀMOLI

  David O. Morgan

  Shiʿite scholar and author, died at Shiraz in 1352-53, when it was under the control of the Inju ruler Abu Esḥāq Jamāl-al-Din.

• ĀMOLĪ, SAYYED BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN

  E. Kohlberg

  early representative of Imamite theosophy (b. 720/1320, or perhaps 719/1319).

• ĀMORAʾĪ

  P. Lecoq

   the dialect spoken in Āmora, a village in the šahrestān of Tafreš.

• AMORDĀD

  Cross-Reference

  See AMURDĀD.

• AMORGES

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  Greek form of the name of several notable Iranians of the Achaemenid period.