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• AMLĀK-E ḴĀṢṢA

  Cross-Reference

  See ḴĀLEṢA.

• AMLAŠ

  Multiple Authors

  i. Geography.  ii. Excavations.

• AMLAŠ ii. Excavations

  R. H. Dyson

  small village in southeastern Gilān which, since 1959, has given its name to a large assortment of archeological artifacts derived from illegal, clandestine excavations in the nearby valleys of the Alborz range.

• AMLAŠ i. Geography

  Marcel Bazin

  small town and district in the southeastern part of Gilān Province.

• ʿĀMMA

  E. Kohlberg

  (pl. ʿawāmm), a common Emāmī Shiʿite appellation for the Sunnites. 

• ʿAMMĀRA

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿAMĀRA.

• ʿAMMĀRLŪ

  P. Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of Gīlān and Khorasan. 

• AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS

  M. L. Chaumont

  historian who provides important information on the Sasanians (b. ca. 330-35).

• AMMITMANYA

  M. Mayrhoffer

  an Iranian, to whom were entrusted 215 (?) BAR of grain provided for provisions at Tukraš.

• AMMŌ, MĀR

  J. P. Asmussen

  Manichean apostle, outstanding figure in the missionary history of Manicheism during the 3rd century CE.

• AMOGHAPĀŚAHṚDAYA

  R. E. Emmerick

  “the heart or essence of the Amoghapāśa ritual,” the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahayanist Tantric tradition. 

• ĀMOL

  C. E. Bosworth, S. Blair, E. Ehlers

  a town on the Caspian shore in the southwest of the modern province of Māzandarān, medieval Ṭabarestān.

• ĀMOL (ĀMŪYA)

  C. E. Bosworth

   town situated three miles from the left bank of the Oxus river (Āmū Daryā).

• AMOL WARE

  Y. Crowe

  a type of incised pottery apparently dating from the 12th-13th centuries.

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• ĀMOLI

  David O. Morgan

  Shiʿite scholar and author, died at Shiraz in 1352-53, when it was under the control of the Inju ruler Abu Esḥāq Jamāl-al-Din.

• ĀMOLĪ, SAYYED BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN

  E. Kohlberg

  early representative of Imamite theosophy (b. 720/1320, or perhaps 719/1319).

• ĀMORAʾĪ

  P. Lecoq

   the dialect spoken in Āmora, a village in the šahrestān of Tafreš.

• AMORDĀD

  Cross-Reference

  See AMURDĀD.

• AMORGES

  A. Sh. Shahbazi

  Greek form of the name of several notable Iranians of the Achaemenid period.

• AMPELIUS, LUCIUS

  Philip Huyse

  author of a short encyclopaedic work Liber memorialis in fifty chapters covering such diverse subjects as cosmography (and astronomy), geography and ethnography, theology and especially history.