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• ANBĀR

  M. Morony

  (Pers. term meaning granary), a town on the left bank of the Euphrates five km northwest of Fallūǰa and sixty-two km west of Baghdad. 

• ANBAR

  C. E. Bosworth

  (or ANBĪR), a town of the medieval Islamic province of Gūzgān or Jūzǰān in northern Afghanistan, probably to be identified with the modern Sar-e Pol.  

• ʿANBARĀN

  Marcel Bazin

  a township and district (baḵš) in the Namin sub-provincial district (šahrestān) of Ardabil Province.

• ANBARĀNĪ Dialect

  Cross-Reference

  See ṬĀLEŠĪ.

• ʿANBARĪ, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS

  C. E. Bosworth

  4th-5th/10th-11th century poet and prose stylist of Khorasan and statesman in the service of the Qarakhanids.

• ANBARĪĀN FAMILY

  C. E. Bosworth

  a distinguished family of officials, littérateurs, ʿolamāʾ, and traditionists from Bayhaq (modern Sabzavār).

• ANBARIN QALAM, ‘ABD-AL-RAḤĪM

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ʿANBARĪN QALAM.

• ANCIENT LETTERS

  N. Sims-Williams

  Sogdian paper documents discovered in 1907 by Sir Aurel Stein.

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• ʿANDALIB, NĀṢER MOḤAMMAD

  A. Schimmel

  Sufi writer (b. in Delhi 1105/1693-94, d. 1172/1759).

• ANDĀMEŠ

  Cross-Reference

  See ANDĪMEŠK; DEZFŪL.