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ĀXWARRBED
A. Tafażżolī
Middle Iranian term for the “Stablemaster, Royal Equerry.”
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ĀY ḴĀNOM
Paul Bernard
or AÏ KHANUM (Tepe), a local Uzbek name designating the site of an important Greek colonial city in northern Afghanistan excavated since 1965 by a French mission and which belonged to a powerful hellenistic state born of Alexander’s conquest in Central Asia (329-27 B.C.)
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AY TĪMŪR
J. M. Smith, Jr.
Sarbadār commander and ruler, “the son of a slave”.
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ĀYADANA
J. Duchesne-Guillemin
“place of cult.” The term occurs once in the Old Persian Bīstūn inscription of Darius I.
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AYĀDGĀR Ī JĀMĀSPĪG
M. Boyce
“Memorial of Jāmāsp,” a short but important Zoroastrian work in Middle Persian, also known as the Jāmāspī and Jāmāsp-nāma.
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AYĀDGĀR Ī WUZURGMIHR
S. Shaked
a popular-religious andarz composition in Pahlavi, attributed to one of the best-known sages of the Sasanian period, Wuzurgmihr (Bozorgmehr) ī Buxtagān, who was active at the court of Ḵosrow I Anōšīravān (531-79 A.D.).
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AYĀDGĀR Ī ZARĒRĀN
M. Boyce
“Memorial of Zarēr,” a short Pahlavi text which is the only surviving specimen in that language of ancient Iranian epic poetry.
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AYĀDĪ-E AMR ALLĀH
D. M. MacEoin
“Hands of the Cause of God”, term used in Bahaʾism to designate the highest rank of the appointed religious hierarchy.
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AʿYĀN AL-ŠĪʿA
W. Ende
a monumental dictionary (56 vols. altogether) of Shiʿite celebrities and learned men compiled by the Shiʿite scholar Sayyed Moḥsen Amīn ʿĀmelī (d. 1952).
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ĀYANDA
Ī. Afšār
Persian journal which began publication in Tīr, 1304 Š./June-July, 1925, under the editorship of its founder, Maḥmūd Afšār (1893-1983).
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ĀYANDAGĀN
L. P. Elwell-Sutton and P. Mohajer
a daily morning newspaper that first appeared in Tehran on 16 December, 1967.
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ĀYATALLĀH
H. Algar
(Sign of God; Engl. Ayatullah, Ayatollah), an honorific title awarded by popular usage to mojtaheds, particularly the foremost among them.
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ĀYATĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤOSAYN
Ī. Afšār
(b. 1288/1871; d. 1332 Š./1953), son of Mollā Moḥammad-Taqī Āḵūnd Taftī, Bahāʾi missionary, journalist, author, and teacher.
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AYĀZ, ABU’L-NAJM
J. Matīnī
favorite Turkish slave of the Ghaznavid Sultan Maḥmūd, whose passion for Ayāz is a recurrent theme in Persian poetry, where he is also called Ayās or Āyāz.
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AYBAK
L. Dupree
(Uzbek “cave dweller”), now called Samangān, capital of Samangān province, associated with several important archeological sites.
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AYBAK, QOṬB-AL-DĪN
N. H. Zaidi
founder of the Moʿezzī or Slave Dynasty and the first Muslim king of India, also called Ībak (moon chieftain) and Aybak Šel.
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ĀYENAHĀ-YE DARDĀR
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
(Mirrors with cover doors, Tehran, 1992), one of the last major works by Hushang Golshiri.
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AYMĀQ
A. Janata
(Turk. Oymaq), a term designating tribal peoples in Khorasan and Afghanistan, mostly semi-nomadic or semi-sedentary, in contrast to the fully sedentary, non-tribal population of the area.
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ʿAYN-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD
J. Calmard
ATĀBAK-E AʿẒAM (1845-1926) son of Solṭān Aḥmad Mīrzā ʿAżod-al-dawla, Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah’s forty-eighth son and a prominent political figure of Moẓaffar-al-dīn Shah’s reign (1896-1907).
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ʿAYN-AL-QOŻĀT HAMADĀNĪ
G. Böwering
(492/1098-526/1131), brilliant mystic philosopher and Sufi martyr.