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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.

• ʿĀQ-E WĀLEDAYN

  J. Calmard

  (ʿĀQQ-E WĀLEDAYN), Ar. “[the son] disobedient to [his] parents,” a theme in popular Shiʿite literature.

• AQA

  D. O. Morgan

  Mongolian title, essentially meaning “elder brother” and by extension “senior member of the family.”

• ĀQĀ BĀLĀ KHAN SARDĀR

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  , MOḤAMMAD-ʿALĪ KHAN, Qajar official in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• AQA BOZORG QĀʾEM-MAQĀM

  cross-reference

  See QĀʾEM-MAQĀM.

• ĀQĀ BOZORG ṬEHRĀNĪ

  H. Algar

   (1293-1389/1876-1970), Shiʿite scholar and bibliographer.

• ĀQĀ KHAN

  H. Algar

  title of the imams of the Nezārī Ismaʿilis since early 19th century.

• ĀQĀ KHAN KERMĀNĪ

  M. Bayat

  (1270-1314/1854-55 to 1896), Iranian writer and intellectual, and an outstanding example of a first-generation secular nationalist. 

• ĀQĀ KHAN NŪRĪ

  Cross-Reference

  (1807-1865), prime minister (ṣadr-e aʿẓam) of Persia (1851-58) under Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah Qajar. See EʿTEMĀD-AL-DAWLA, ĀQĀ KHAN NURI.

• ĀQĀ MĪRAK

  P. P. Soucek

  prominent painter of the 10th/16th century in the workshop of the Safavid Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 930-84/1524-76).