Table of Contents

• ʿANKABŪTĪĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ARACHNIDS.

• ANKLESARIA, BAHRAMGORE TAHMURAS

  K. M. JamaspAsa and M. Boyce

  (1873-1944), Parsi scholar, son of Tahmuras Dinshah Anklesaria, born and educated in Bombay.

• ANKLESARIA, PESHOTAN KAVASHAH

  K. M JamaspAsa and M. Boyce

  (1928-69), Parsi priest and scholar born at Broach.  

• ANKLESARIA, TAHMURAS DINSHAH

  K. M. Jamaspasa and M. Boyce

  (1842-1903), Parsi priest and scholar.

• ʿANNAZIDS

  K. M. Aḥmad

  (BANŪ ʿANNĀZ), a Kurdish dynasty (r. ca. 380-510/990-1117).

• ANŌŠAG-RUWĀN

  C. J. Brunner

  "of immortal soul", originally a respectful euphemism, becoming in the Islamic period an aristocratic proper name.

• ANŌŠAZĀD

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (in the Šāh-nāma, Nōšzād; the name means “son of the immortal”), a son of Ḵosrow I Anōšīravān and leader of a revolt in ca. 550 CE.

• ANŌŠĪRAVĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ḴOSROW I.

• ANQARAVĪ, ROSŪḴ-AL-DĪN

  H. Algar

  (also known as Rosūḵī Dede; d. 1041/1631), a shaikh in the Mawlawī order and author of the most important traditional commentary on theMaṯnawī of Jalāl-al-dīn Rūmī.

• ANQUETIL-DUPERRON

  J. Duchesne-Guillemin

  (1731-1805), French orientalist, born in Paris on 7 December 1731. In June, 1759, he was able to send news to Paris that he had completed (in three months) a translation of that Vendidad.