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• ʿASKARĪ

  H. Halm

  the 11th imam of the Twelver Shiʿites.

• ʿASKARĪ, ABŪ HELĀL

  W. M. Watt

  philologist and poet born about the middle of the 4th/10th century.

• ʿAŠKARĪ, ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN AL-ʿASKARĪ.

• ĀŠKAŠ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  an Iranian hero in the reign of Kay Ḵosrow.

• ĀŠKBŌS

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  a Turanian hero from Kašān or Košān in the story of “Kāmūs-e Kašānī,” in the Šāh-nāma.

• ASLAM, ABU’L-QĀSEM MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

   See ABU’L-QĀSEM MOḤAMMAD ASLAM.

• ĀṢLĀNDŪZ

  J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī

  (or AṢLĀNDŪZ), a small village in the northeast of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan.

• ĀSMĀN

  A. Tafażżolī

  (sky, heavens), in Zoroastrian cosmology the first part of the material (gētīg) world created by Ohrmazd.

• 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.

• ASMUSSEN, Jes Peter

  Werner Sundermann

  scholar of Iranian studies (1928-2002).