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  • 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).

  • AṢNĀF

    W. M. Floor

    the plural of ṣenf (class, kind category), collective designation of guilds in Iran since the 11th/17th century.

  • ĀSNATAR

    W. W. Malandra

    one of the eight Zoroastrian priests (ratu) necessary for the performance of the yasna ritual.

  • AŠŌ-DĀD

    M. F. Kanga

    Zoroastrian (Pazend) term for the remuneration to a priest for his services.

  • ĀŠOFTA

    N. Parvīn

    a Persian magazine published in Tehran 1325 Š./1946-1336 Š./1957.

  • ĀŠŌGAR

    Cross-Reference

    See AŠŌQAR.

  • AŚOKA

    J. G. De Casparis, G. Fussman, P. O. Skjærvø

     Mauryan emperor of India (ca. 272-231 B.C.).