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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.
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ANA’L-ḤAQQ
A. Schimmel
“I am the Truth,” the most famous of the Sufi šaṭḥīyāt (ecstatic utterances, or paradoxes).
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ʿANBAR
Ž. Mottaḥedīn
(ambergris), a waxy, aromatic substance produced in the intestines of stomach of the sperm whale and used in perfumery.
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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.
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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.
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ʿANBARĀN
Marcel Bazin
a township and district (baḵš) in the Namin sub-provincial district (šahrestān) of Ardabil Province.
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ANBARĀNĪ Dialect
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See ṬĀLEŠĪ.
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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.
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ANBARĪĀN FAMILY
C. E. Bosworth
a distinguished family of officials, littérateurs, ʿolamāʾ, and traditionists from Bayhaq (modern Sabzavār).
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ANBARIN QALAM, ‘ABD-AL-RAḤĪM
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