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  • ĀS

    Mehdi Roschanzamir

    a game of playing cards which became popular in the Qajar era, and hence replaced ganjafa, the card game associated with the Safavids.

  • ĀS

    cross-reference

    “Ossetia”; ĀSĪ “Ossetic, Ossete.” See ALANS; ALBANIA; ASII; OSSETIC.

  • ĀŠ

    W. Eilers, ʿE. Elāhī, M. Boyce

    (thick soup), the general term for a traditional Iranian dish comparable to the French potage.

  • AṦA

    B. Schlerath, P. O. Skjærvø

    “truth” in Avestan. The Indo-Iranian concept of truth is preserved in the Gāθās and in the younger Avesta unchanged.

  • AṦA VAHIŠTA

    cross-reference

    See ARDWAHIŠT.

  • ASʿAD B. NAṢR

    Cross-Reference

    See ABZARĪ.

  • ASAD B. SĀMĀNḴODĀ

    C. E. Bosworth

    ancestor of the Samanid dynasty.

  • ASADĀBĀD (1)

    C. E. Bosworth

    name of several towns in medieval sources, including the modern city.

  • ASADĀBĀD

    D. Balland

    (or ASʿADĀBĀD), the official name of a small town in eastern Afghanistan, capital of Konar (Kunar) Province.

  • ASADĀBĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR B. AḤMAD.

  • ASADĀBĀDĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN

    Cross-Reference

    See AFḠĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN.

  • ASADALLĀH EṢFAHĀNĪ

    A. S. Melikian-Chirvani

    a signature borne by hundreds of fine blades, which is occasionally followed by dates ranging from the 17th to the 19th century.

  • ASADĪ ṬŪSĪ

    Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

    (d. 1072-73), poet, linguist and copyist, from Ṭūs in Khorasan.

  • ĀṢAF AL-LOḠĀT

    M. Dabīrsīāqī

    title of a Persian dictionary.

  • ĀṢAF KHAN

    P. Saran

    10th/16th century Mughal official and military commander.

  • ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA, ʿABD-AL-WAHHĀB

    Cross-Reference

    See Supplement.

  • ĀṢAF-AL-DAWLA, ALLĀHYĀR

    Cross-Reference

    See Supplement.

  • ĀṢAFĪ HERAVĪ

    A. ʿA. Rajāʾī

    a minor poet of the Timurid period (d. 923/1517).

  • ASAGARTA

    W. Eilers

    an ancient Iranian tribe of uncertain location; they must have dwelt in the east of the kingdom. 

  • ASĀLEM

    M. Bazin

    a mountainous district in Ṭāleš, now a dehestān of the central baḵš of the šahrestān of Ṭawāleš, province of Gīlān.