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ĀZĀDSARV
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
Two bearers of this name are known.
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ĀZĀDVĀR
C. E. Bosworth
(or Āzaḏvār), a small town of Khorasan in the district (kūra, rostāq) of Jovayn, which flourished in medieval Islamic times, apparently down to the Il-khanid period.
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AŻĀʿELḴᵛĀNĪ
Cross-Reference
See MANĀQEB ḴᵛĀNĪ.
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AZAL
J. van Ess
Arabic theological term derived from Pahlavi a-sar “without head” and meaning, already in early Muʿtazilite kalām, “eternity a parte ante,” as opposite to abad, “eternity a parte post.”
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AZALI BABISM
D. M. MacEoin
designation of a religious faction which takes its name from Mīrzā Yaḥyā Nūrī Ṣobḥ-e Azal (about 1246-1330/1830-1912), considered by his followers to have been the legitimate successor to the Bāb.
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AʿẒAM KHAN
ʿA. Ḥabībī
the fifth son of Amir Dōst Moḥammad Khan and the third amir of the Moḥammadzay line, ruler of Afghanistan in 1284/1867-1285/1868.
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ĀŽANG
N. Parvīn
(Wrinkle), a Persian newspaper which commenced publication in Esfand, 1332 Š./February, 1954, and lasted until 1353 Š./1974.
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ĀZAR
Cross-Reference
father of Abraham. See EBRĀHĪM.
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ĀẔAR BĪGDELĪ
J. Matīnī
(ĀḎAR BĪGDELĪ), poet and author of a taḏkera (biographical anthology) of about 850 Persian poets, complied in 1174/1760.
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ĀẔAR KAYVĀN
H. Corbin
(ĀḎAR KAYVĀN; d. between 1609 and 1618), a Zoroastrian high priest and native of Fārs who emigrated to India and became the founder of the Zoroastrian Ešrāqī or Illuminative School.