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ĀṢLĀNDŪZ
J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī
(or AṢLĀNDŪZ), a small village in the northeast of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.
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ĀSMĀN
A. Tafażżolī
(sky, heavens), in Zoroastrian cosmology the first part of the material (gētīg) world created by Ohrmazd.
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ASMĀR AL-ASRĀR
S. S. K. Hussaini
(Night-discourses of secrets), theosophical treatise in Persian composed by a 9th/15th century Češtī Sufi of India, Sayyed Moḥammad Ḥosaynī Gīsūdarāz (d. 825/1422), popularly known as Ḵᵛāǰa-ye Bandanavāz.
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ASMUSSEN, Jes Peter
Werner Sundermann
scholar of Iranian studies (1928-2002).
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AṢNĀF
W. M. Floor
the plural of ṣenf (class, kind category), collective designation of guilds in Iran since the 11th/17th century.
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ĀSNATAR
W. W. Malandra
one of the eight Zoroastrian priests (ratu) necessary for the performance of the yasna ritual.
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AŠŌ-DĀD
M. F. Kanga
Zoroastrian (Pazend) term for the remuneration to a priest for his services.
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ĀŠOFTA
N. Parvīn
a Persian magazine published in Tehran 1325 Š./1946-1336 Š./1957.
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ĀŠŌGAR
Cross-Reference
See AŠŌQAR.
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AŚOKA
J. G. De Casparis, G. Fussman, P. O. Skjærvø
Mauryan emperor of India (ca. 272-231 B.C.).
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ASOŁIK
Michel van Esbroeck
“the singer,” the usual name of Stephen of Tarōn.
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AŠŌQAR
EIr
in Syriac sources the name of a deity.
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ĀSŌRISTĀN
G. Widengren
name of the Sasanian province of Babylonia.
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ASP
Cross-Reference
See ASB.
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ASP-SAVĀRĪ
Cross-Reference
See ASB-SAVĀRĪ.
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ASPABAD
Cross-Reference
or ASPAPAT. See ASPBED.
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ASPAČANĀ
A. Sh. Shahbazi
a senior official under Darius the Great and Xerxes.
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ASPAND
Cross-Reference
See ESFAND.
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ASPARUKH
D. M. Lang
a Middle Iranian proper name attested in ancient Georgia and early medieval Bulgaria.
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ASPASII
C. J. Brunner
one of the tribal people encountered by Alexander the Great in Gandhāra, 327-26 B.C.