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  • ʿARAŻ

    F. Rahman

    a term of philosophy meaning “accident.” 

  • ARBĀB

    Š. Rāseḵ

    the plural of the Arabic noun rabb “owner, master, the Lord,” used in Persian to signify any sort of owner or master.

  • ARBĀB KAY-ḴOSROW-E ŠĀHROḴ

    Cross-Reference

    See ŠĀHROḴ.

  • ARBĀB ROSTAM GĪV

    Cross-Reference

    See GĪV.

  • ARBĀB, MOḤAMMAD-MAHDĪ

    S. Okazaki

    a prominent merchant and scholar of Isfahan (fl. ca. 1818-1896/97).

  • ARBACES

    M. A. Dandamayev

    Greek form of an Old Iranian proper name.

  • ARBAʿĪN

    M. Ayoub

    40th day after ʿĀšūrāʾ. A day of mourning, preferably at the shrine of Imam Ḥosayn, Arbaʿīn forms part of a cycle of days commemorating the burial of the imam and his companions.

  • ARBĀYISTĀN

    G. Widengren

    name of a Mesopotamian province in the Sasanian empire.

  • ARBELA

    J. F. Hansman

    capital of an ancient northern Mesopotamian province located between the two Zab rivers.  

  • ARBELA, BATTLE OF

    Cross-Reference

    the victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III on 1 October 331 BCE.; see GAUGAMELA.