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• AMĀNAT KHAN ŠĪRĀZĪ

  W. E. Begley

  (d. 1054-55/ 1644-45), designer of the calligraphy on the Tāǰ Maḥall. 

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• AMĀNI

  Fabrizio Speziale

  pen name of Amān-Allāh Khan, Ḵān-e Zamān, an Indo-Muslim physician and author of works on medicine (d. 1637).

• ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ

  J. Matīnī

  Having attained a degree of literary prowess in his home of Bokhara he went to the Qarakhanid court in Samarkand in 460/1068.

• ĀMĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See DEMOGRAPHY.

• AMAR NĀTH

  B. Ahmad

  Persian writer and poet of the Punjab under the Sikhs (1822-67).

• ʿAMĀRA MARVAZĪ

  J. Matīnī

  Persian poet of the late Samanid/early Ghaznavid periods.

• AMARANTH

  Cross-Reference

  See BOSTĀNAFRŪZ.

• ĀMĀRGAR

  D. N. MacKenzie, M. L. Chaumont

  a Middle and New Persian word designating a person holding a particular administrative post.

• AʿMAŠ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD

  E. Kohlberg

  SOLAYMĀN B. MEḤRĀN ASADĪ (in some sources, erroneously, Azdī) KĀHELĪ KŪFĪ, 1st-2nd/7th-8th century Shiʿite scholar, traditionist, and Koran reader.

• AMASYA, PEACE OF

  M. Köhbach

  (8 Raǰab 962/29 May 1555), treaty signed between Iran and the Ottomans and observed for some twenty years.