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• AMATUNI

  C. Toumanoff

  Armenian dynastic house, known historically after the 4th century CE.

• AMAZONS

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  designation of a fabulous race of female warriors in Greek beliefs, writings, and art, fancifully explained as a-mazos (breastless or full-breasted).

• ĀMED

  Cross-Reference

  See AMIDA.

• ĀMEDĪ

  E. Kohlberg

  6th/12th century traditionist.

• ʿĀMEL

  C. E. Bosworth

  the holder of an administrative office in the pre-modern Islamic world.

• ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.

• ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN

  H. Corbin

  Shiʿite theologian and author (d. Najaf, 1138/1726). 

• ʿĀMELĪ, ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM ʿĀMELĪ.

• ʿĀMELĪ, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN

  Cross-Reference

  See BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ.

• AMƎRƎTĀT

  Cross-Reference

  See AMURDĀD.

• ʿĀMERĪ NĪŠĀPŪRĪ

  H. Corbin

  (d. 381/992), important philosopher from Khorasan between Fārābī and Avicenna. 

• AMƎŠA SPƎNTA

  M. Boyce

  an Avestan term for beneficent divinity, meaning literally “Holy/Bounteous Immortal” (Pahl. Amešāspand, [A]mahraspand).

• AMESTRIS

  R. Schmitt

  Greek form of an Old Persian female proper name.

• ʿAMĪD, ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH

  C. E. Bosworth

  known as Kolah (said to be an opprobrious term), secretary and official in northern Persia and Transoxania during the 4th/10th century.

• ʿAMĪD-AL-DĪN ASʿAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ABZARĪ.

• ʿAMĪD-AL-DĪN SANĀMĪ

  M. U. Memon

  Persian poet of India, panegyrist of Nāṣer-al-dīn Maḥmūd (r. 644-64/1246-66) and perhaps of Ḡīāṯ-al-dīn Balban (7th/13th century).

• ʿAMĪD-AL-MOLK

  Cross-Reference

  See ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ.

• ʿAMĪD-AL-MOLK ABŪ ḠĀNEM

  Cross-Reference

  See ABZARĪ.

• AMIDA

  D. Sellwood and EIr

  Pers. Āmed (modern Dīārbakr), town situated on a plateau dominating the west bank of the upper Tigris.

• AMĪN AḤMAD RĀZĪ

  M. U. Memon

  better known as AMĪN RĀZĪ, 10th-11th/16th-17th century author of the Haft eqlīm, a famous geographical and biographical encyclopedia.