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APOSTOLIC CANONS
N. Sims-Williams
fragmentary Christian Sogdian text.
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APPIANUS
M. L. Chaumont
(APPIAN) OF ALEXANDRIA, historian, born probably toward the end of the 1st century CE.
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APZUT KAWĀT WALL
Murtazali Gadjiev
a Sasanian defensive wall located between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains.
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AQ EVLI
P. Oberling
a small Turkic tribe of Fārs. According to legend, the ancestors of the present-day Āq Evlīs were forced to migrate from Azerbaijan to Khorasan in Safavid times.
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AQ QOYUNLŪ
R. Quiring-Zoche
or WHITE SHEEP, a confederation of Turkman tribes who ruled in eastern Anatolia and western Iran until the Safavid conquest in 1501.
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ʿĀQ-E WĀLEDAYN
J. Calmard
(ʿĀQQ-E WĀLEDAYN), Ar. “[the son] disobedient to [his] parents,” a theme in popular Shiʿite literature.
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AQA
D. O. Morgan
Mongolian title, essentially meaning “elder brother” and by extension “senior member of the family.”
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ĀQĀ BĀLĀ KHAN SARDĀR
Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī
MOḤAMMAD-ʿALĪ KHAN, Qajar official in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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AQA BOZORG QĀʾEM-MAQĀM
cross-reference
See QĀʾEM-MAQĀM.
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ĀQĀ BOZORG ṬEHRĀNĪ
H. Algar
(1293-1389/1876-1970), Shiʿite scholar and bibliographer.