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ANĀMAKA
R. Schmitt
name of the tenth month (December-January) of the Old Persian calendar.
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ANAND RAM MOKLES
B. Ahmad
Chronicler, lexicographer, and poet of the later Mughal period (1111-64/1699-1750.
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ĀNANDRĀJ, FARHANG-E
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Persian dictionary by Monšī Moḥammad Bādšāh, completed in 1306/1888. See FARHANG-E ĀNANDRĀJ.
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ANANIAS OF SHIRAK
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(7th century), scholar, to whom (or to a pseudo-MOVSĒS XORENAC‘I) is attributed the anonymous work Armenian Geography (Ašxarhac‘oyc‘). On this work, see MARKWART, JOSEF.
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ANANIAS OF SHIRAK (ANANIA ŠIRAKAC‘I)
Tim Greenwood
Armenian scholar (ca. 600-670 CE), to whom is attributed a wide range of late Antique scientific texts, including the anonymous Armenian Geography (Ašxarhac‘oyc‘).
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ANANTAMUKHANIRHĀRADHĀRAṆĪ
R. E. Emmerick
the name of a Buddhist text belonging to the Mahayanist Tantric tradition.
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ANAPHAS
R. Schmitt
Persian male name.
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ANĀRAK
C. E. Bosworth
a baḵš and its town on the southern fringes of the Dašt-e Kavīr.
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ANĀRAKI
G. L. Windfuhr
the dialect of Anārak, a town with 2,100 inhabitants in the Bīābānak region northeast of the city of Nāʾīn.
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ANATOLIA
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and its relations with Iran: see Asia Minor.
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ANAW
T. C. Young, Jr., G. A. Pugachenkova
village and archeological site at the foot of the Kopet-Dag mountains east of Ashkhabad in Soviet Turkestan.
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ANA’L-ḤAQQ
A. Schimmel
“I am the Truth,” the most famous of the Sufi šaṭḥīyāt (ecstatic utterances, or paradoxes).
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ʿANBAR
Ž. Mottaḥedīn
(ambergris), a waxy, aromatic substance produced in the intestines of stomach of the sperm whale and used in perfumery.
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ANBĀR
M. Morony
(Pers. term meaning granary), a town on the left bank of the Euphrates five km northwest of Fallūǰa and sixty-two km west of Baghdad.
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ANBAR
C. E. Bosworth
(or ANBĪR), a town of the medieval Islamic province of Gūzgān or Jūzǰān in northern Afghanistan, probably to be identified with the modern Sar-e Pol.
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ʿANBARĀN
Marcel Bazin
a township and district (baḵš) in the Namin sub-provincial district (šahrestān) of Ardabil Province.
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ANBARĀNĪ Dialect
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See ṬĀLEŠĪ.
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ʿANBARĪ, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS
C. E. Bosworth
4th-5th/10th-11th century poet and prose stylist of Khorasan and statesman in the service of the Qarakhanids.
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ANBARĪĀN FAMILY
C. E. Bosworth
a distinguished family of officials, littérateurs, ʿolamāʾ, and traditionists from Bayhaq (modern Sabzavār).
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ANBARIN QALAM, ‘ABD-AL-RAḤĪM
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