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ANJOMAN-E VELĀYATI
ʿAli Reżā Abtaḥi
(Provincial Council) of Isfahan, set up subsequent to the establishment of the Parliament (majles) to secure the aims of the Constitutional Revolution.
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ANJOMAN-E ZARTOŠTĪĀN
M. Kasheff
(Society of Zoroastrians), the designation of formally instituted Zoroastrian associations in Iran.
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ANJOMANĀRĀ, FARHANG-E
R. ʿAfīfī
Persian-language dictionary compiled by Reżā-qolī Khan Hedāyat (1215-88/1800-71) known as Lala-bāšī.
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ʿANKABŪTĪĀN
Cross-Reference
See ARACHNIDS.
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ANKLESARIA, BAHRAMGORE TAHMURAS
K. M. JamaspAsa and M. Boyce
(1873-1944), Parsi scholar, son of Tahmuras Dinshah Anklesaria, born and educated in Bombay.
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ANKLESARIA, PESHOTAN KAVASHAH
K. M JamaspAsa and M. Boyce
(1928-69), Parsi priest and scholar born at Broach.
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ANKLESARIA, TAHMURAS DINSHAH
K. M. Jamaspasa and M. Boyce
(1842-1903), Parsi priest and scholar.
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ʿANNAZIDS
K. M. Aḥmad
(BANŪ ʿANNĀZ), a Kurdish dynasty (r. ca. 380-510/990-1117).
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ANŌŠAG-RUWĀN
C. J. Brunner
"of immortal soul", originally a respectful euphemism, becoming in the Islamic period an aristocratic proper name.
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ANŌŠAZĀD
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
(in the Šāh-nāma, Nōšzād; the name means “son of the immortal”), a son of Ḵosrow I Anōšīravān and leader of a revolt in ca. 550 CE.
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ANŌŠĪRAVĀN
Cross-Reference
See ḴOSROW I.
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ANQARAVĪ, ROSŪḴ-AL-DĪN
H. Algar
(also known as Rosūḵī Dede; d. 1041/1631), a shaikh in the Mawlawī order and author of the most important traditional commentary on theMaṯnawī of Jalāl-al-dīn Rūmī.
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ANQUETIL-DUPERRON
J. Duchesne-Guillemin
(1731-1805), French orientalist, born in Paris on 7 December 1731. In June, 1759, he was able to send news to Paris that he had completed (in three months) a translation of that Vendidad.
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ANṢARĪ, ʿALĪ-QOLĪ KHAN
M. Kasheff
MOŠĀWER-AL-MAMĀLEK (1868-1940), a career diplomat under the late Qajars.
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ANṢĀRĪ, ḴᵛĀJA ʿABDALLĀH
Cross-Reference
See ʿABDALLĀH ANṢĀRĪ.
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ANṢĀRĪ, MĪRZĀ SAʿĪD KHAN
Cross-Reference
MOʾTAMEN-AL-MOLK. See MOʾTAMEN-AL-MOLK.
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ANṢĀRĪ, SHAIKH MORTAŻĀ
S. Murata
B. MOḤAMMAD AMĪN (1799-1864), 1799-1864), important author of works on feqh.
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ANSHAN
J. Hansman
(or ANZAN), the name of an important Elamite region in western Fārs and of its chief city.
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ANṬĀKĪYA
Cross-Reference
See ANTIOCH.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
B. Spooner
(Persian mardomšenāsī), social and cultural, in Iran and Afghanistan.