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• ANŪŠERVĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  B. MANŪČEHR B. QĀBŪS, ruler of the Daylamī dynasty of the Ziyarids in Ṭabarestān and Gorgān during the early 11th century.

• ANŪŠERVĀN KĀŠĀNĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  ABŪ NAṢR ŠARAF-AL-DĪN, high official who served the Great Saljuq sultans and the ʿAbbasid caliph during the first half of the 6th/12th century.

• ANŪŠTIGIN ḠARČAʾĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Turkish slave commander of the Saljuqs; in the late 11th century, he bore the traditional title of Ḵᵛārazmšāh.

• ANWĀR, SHAH QĀSEM

  Cross-Reference

  SHAH QĀSEM. See QĀSEM-E ANWĀR.

• ANWĀR-E SOHAYLĪ

  G. M. Wickens

  a collection of fables by the Timurid prose-stylist Ḥosayn Wāʿeẓ Kāšefī.  

• ANWARI

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  AWḤAD-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD (or ʿALĪ), poet at the court of the Saljuqs in the 12th century.

• ANZALĪ

  Marcel Bazin

  The town had 55,000 inhabitants in 1976 and 110,643 in 2006 (Markaz-e Āmār-e Irān), mainly Gilaks and Turks. The latter are mostly emigrants (mohâjer) from Azerbaijan when it was under Soviet rule, and they are particularly numerous in the fisheries and port activities.

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• ANZAN

  Cross-Reference

  The name of an important Elamite region in western Fārs and of its chief city. See ANSHAN.

• AOGƎMADAĒČĀ

  J. Duchesne-Guillemin

  A small prayer and meditation on death, made up of 29 Avestan quotations (one of them Gathic) embedded in a sermon in Pārsī (Pahlavi in Arabic script).

• APADĀNA

  R. Schmitt, D. Stronach

  The term apadāna was possibly used exclusively to describe a distinctive type of columned audience hall introduced by Darius I (r. 522-486 B.C.). It is only known from four extant inscriptions: one of Darius II (r. 424-05 B.C.) and three of his son, Artaxerxes II (r. 405-359 B.C.).

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