BAHMAN, the New Persian name of the Avestan Vohu Manah (Good Thought) and Pahlavi Wahman. i. In the Avesta. ii….

ĀZARMĪGDUXT (Pers. Āzarmīdoḵt, Arzmīdoḵt, Arzmīndoḵt, Āzarūmīddoḵt), Sasanian queen who according to Ṭabarī ruled for a few months in 630. She…

ARDĀ WĪRĀZ, “Wīrāz the just” (i.e., “the justified, the blessed”), principal character of the Zoroastrian Middle Persian text Ardā Wīrāz-nāmag…

ANĒRĀN “non-Iran,” Middle Persian ethno-linguistic term generally used pejoratively to denote a political and religious enemy of Iran and Zoroastrianism….

AHLAW (Ahlav; written ʾhlwb), a middle Persian term which plays a fundamental role in Mazdean soteriology and which is usually…

ĀDUR-ANĀHĪD, 3rd century A.D. Sasanian “queen of queens.” The name is probably a compound of two associated deities, Fire and…