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• ASTARĀBĀD-ARDAŠĪR

  Cross-Reference

  See KARḴ MAYSĀN.

• ASTARĀBĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR ASTARĀBĀDĪ.

• ASTARĀBĀDĪ, FAŻLALLĀH

  H. Algar

  (d. 796/1394), founder of the Ḥorūfī religion.

• ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MAHDĪ KHAN

  J. R. Perry

  court secretary and historiographer to Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1148-60/1736-47).

• ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MOḤAMMAD AMĪN

  E. Kohlberg

   founder of the 17th-century Aḵbārī school.

• AŠTARAK

  KAMRAN EKBAL

  a village in the Ābārān district about six miles northwest of Yerevan (Iravān) in a mountainous region of the Caucasus.

• ĀŠTARJĀN

  R. Hillenbrand

  (OŠTORJĀN), name of a subdistrict (dehestān) and its chief village, lying southwest of Isfahan.

• ĀSTARKĪ

  J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī

  (or AŠTARKĪ), one sub-tribe of the six which presently constitute the Dūrkī tribe of the Haft Lang confederation of the Baḵtīārī people.

• ASTAUENE

  Gorgān

  Parthian province to the north of Hyrcania (Gorgān). See OSTOVĀ.

• ĀŠTĪĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  the name both of an administrative subdistrict (dehestān) and its chef-lieu in the First Province (ostān).