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• ANAND RAM MOKLES

  B. Ahmad

  Chronicler, lexicographer, and poet of the later Mughal period (1111-64/1699-1750.

• ĀNANDRĀJ, FARHANG-E

  Cross-Reference

  Persian dictionary by Monšī Moḥammad Bādšāh, completed in 1306/1888. See FARHANG-E ĀNANDRĀJ.

• ANANTAMUKHANIRHĀRADHĀRAṆĪ

  R. E. Emmerick

  the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahayanist Tantric tradition. 

• ANAPHAS

  R. Schmitt

  Persian male name.

• ANĀRAK

  C. E. Bosworth

  a baḵš and its town on the southern fringes of the Dašt-e Kavīr.

• ANĀRAKI

  G. L. Windfuhr

  the dialect of Anārak, a town with 2,100 inhabitants in the Bīābānak region northeast of the city of Nāʾīn.

• ANATOLIA

  Cross-Reference

  and its relations with Iran: see Asia Minor.

• ANAW

  T. C. Young, Jr., G. A. Pugachenkova

  village and archeological site at the foot of the Kopet-Dag mountains east of Ashkhabad in Soviet Turkestan.

• ANA’L-ḤAQQ

  A. Schimmel

  “I am the Truth,” the most famous of the Sufi šaṭḥīyāt (ecstatic utterances, or paradoxes).

• ʿANBAR

  Ž. Mottaḥedīn

  (ambergris), a waxy, aromatic substance produced in the intestines of stomach of the sperm whale and used in perfumery.