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  • AMĪN-AL-ŻARB, ḤAJJ MOḤAMMAD-ḤOSAYN

    A. Enayat

    (1289-1351/1872-1932), Persian businessman and vice-president of the first Maǰles. 

  • AMĪN-E ELĀHĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ARDAKĀNĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN.

  • AMĪN-E ŠŪRĀ

    Cross-Reference

    See PĀŠĀ KHAN.

  • AMĪNĀ

    A. Netzer

    pen name of BENYĀMĪN B. MĪŠĀʾĪL KĀŠĀNĪ, an outstanding Jewish poet of Iran.

  • AMĪNA AQDAS

    G. Nashat

    or AMĪN-E AQDAS (d. 1311/1893), one of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah’s most powerful wives.  

  • AMĪNĀ QAZVĪNĪ

    Hameed ud-Din

    also known as MĪRZĀ AMĪNA or AMĪNA-YE MONŠĪ, Mughal historian and poet of Shah Jahān’s reign.

  • AMĪNĪ, SHAIKH ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN

    H. Algar

    also known as ʿAllāma-ye Amīnī (1320-90/1902-70), Shiʿite scholar and author of the encyclopedic al-Ḡadīr fi’l-ketāb wa’l-sonna wa’l-adab.

  • AMĪNJĪ

    I. Poonawala

    eminent Ṭayyebī Ismaʿili jurist from Ahmadabad in India (d. 1567).

  • AMĪR

    C. E. Bosworth

    “commander, governor, prince” in Arabic. The term seems to be basically Islamic; although it does not occur in the Koran, we do find there the related concept of the “holders of authority.”

  • AMĪR ARSALĀN

    W. L. Hanaway, Jr.

    a prose romance of the genre dāstānhā-ye ʿammīāna, “popular tales,” composed by Mīrzā Moḥammad ʿAlī Naqīb-al-mamālek, the chief storyteller of Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah (r. 1848-96).

  • AMĪR AṢLĀN KHAN

    Cross-Reference

    See MAJD-AL-DAWLA.

  • AMĪR BAHĀDOR, ḤOSAYN PĀŠĀ KHAN

    Cross-Reference

    See BAHĀDOR JANG, AMIR.

  • AMĪR ḤARAS

    C. E. Bosworth

    (AMĪR-E ḤARAS) “commander of the guard,” the official at the court of the ʿAbbasid caliphs and at certain of its provincial successor states who was directly responsible for policing the palace and for carrying out the caliph’s wishes.

  • AMĪR ḤASAN DEHLAVĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See INDIA xiv. Persian Literature in India.

  • AMIR KABIR PUBLISHERS

    EIr

    Major Persian publishing house active from 1949 to 1979.

  • AMĪR KABĪR, MĪRZĀ TAQĪ KHAN

    H. Algar

    (1222-68/1807-52),  also known by the titles of Atābak and Amīr-e Neẓām; chief minister to Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah for the first four years of his reign and one of the most capable and innovative figures to appear in the whole Qajar period.

  • AMĪR ḴORD

    K. A. Nizami

    Indo-Muslim author of the Sīar al-awlīāʾ  (8th/14th century).

  • AMĪR ḴOSROW DEHLAVĪ

    A. Schimmel

    (651-725/1253-1325), the “Parrot of India,” the greatest Persian-writing poet of medieval India.

  • AMĪR LAŠKAR

    J. Calmard

    (AMĪR-E LAŠKAR) military rank equivalent to general granted during Reżā Khan’s rise to power.

  • AMĪR MOFAḴḴAM BAḴTĪĀRĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See BAḴTĪĀRĪ.