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• ĀTAŠ

  M. Boyce

  “fire”. Zoroastrian veneration of fire plainly has its origin in an Indo-Iranian cult of the hearth fire, going back in all probability to Indo-European times.

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• ĀTAŠ Journal

  N. Parvīn

  (Fire), a Persian journal of news and political comment, published in Tehran, 1946-60.

• ĀTAŠ NIYĀYIŠN

  M. Boyce and F. M. Kotwal

  the fifth in a group of five Zoroastrian prayers, which is addressed to fire and its divinity.

• ĀTAŠ, AḤMAD

  cross-reference

  See  ATEŞ, AHMED.

• ĀTAŠ, Ḵᵛāja ʿAlī Ḥaydar

  M. Baqir

  late 18th to early 19th-century Indo-Muslim poet in Persian and Urdu.

• ĀTAŠ-ZŌHR

  M. Boyce and F. M. Kotwal

  or ātaš-zōr, a Middle Persian term for the Zoroastrian ritual.

• ĀTAŠDĀN

  M. Boyce

   “place of fire, fire-holder,” designates the altar-like repository for a sacred wood-fire in a Zoroastrian place of worship.

• ATASHI, MANUCHEHR

  Saeed Rezaei

  modernist poet, journalist, and translator.

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• ĀTAŠKADA

  M. Boyce

   “house of fire,” a Zoroastrian term for a consecrated building in which there is an ever-burning sacred fire.

• ATEŞ, AHMED

  Tahsin Yazici

  (1911-1966), Turkish orientalist and scholar of Persian literature.