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ANDEJĀN
C. E. Bosworth
town in in the medieval Islamic province of Farḡāna, modern Russian Andizhan, in the easternmost part of the in the easternmost part of Uzbekistan.
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ANDIJAN UPRISING
Anke von Kuegelgen
On the night of 9 Muḥarram 1316/30 May 1898, a group of about 2,000 poorly armed men attacked the 4th and 5th Russian Companies on the outskirts of Andijan under the leadership of the Naqšbandi Sufi Shaykh Dukči Išān (Muḥammad ʿAli Madali, ca. 1856-1898).
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ANDĪMEŠK
X. De Planhol
(also ANDĀMEŠ, ANDĀLMEŠK), the name of medieval Dezfūl.
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ANDḴŪY
D. N. Wilber
a commercial town in northwestern Afghanistan.
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ANDRAGORAS
R. N. Frye
Seleucid satrap of Parthia and Hyrcania, known primarily from his coins.
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ANDREAS, FRIEDRICH CARL
W. Lentz, D. N. MacKenzie, B. Schlerath
German Iranologist (1846-1930).
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ANĒRĀN
Ph. Gignoux
“non-Iran,” Middle Persian ethno-linguistic term generally used pejoratively to denote a political and religious enemy of Iran and Zoroastrianism.
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ANGAJĪ, ḤĀJJ MĪRZĀ ABŪ’L-ḤASAN
H. Algar
(1282-1357/1865-1939), a leading moǰtahed of Tabrīz, politically active during both the Constitutional Revolution and the reign of Reżā Shah.
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ANGALYŪN
J. P. Asmussen
Persian rendering of the title of the Gospel of Mani.
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ANGIOLELLO, GIOVANNI MARIA
A. M. Piemontese
(or DEGLI ANGIOLELLO) (1451-ca. 1525), Venetian adventurer, merchant, and author of an important historical report on the Aq Qoyunlū and early Safavid Persia.