Encyclopædia Iranica
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AMA
M. Boyce
a minor Zoroastrian divinity, the hypostasis of strength, who appears in the Avestan hymn to Vərəθraγna (Yt. 14).
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AʿMĀ
I. Abbas
7th-8th century poet from Azerbaijan who wrote in Arabic.
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AMAHRASPAND
Cross-Reference
See AMƎŠA SPƎNTA.
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AMAL AL-ĀMEL
J. van Ess
biographical dictionary of Shiʿite (Etnāʿašarī) scholars originating from the Jabal ʿĀmel in south Lebanon, composed by Moḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Mašḡarī, known as Ḥorr-e ʿĀmelī (1033-1104/1624-1693).
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ʿAMALA
P. Oberling
(literally: workers, retainers), the retinue of a tribal chief, and the name of a number of tribes.
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AMĀMA
Abu’l-Qāsem Tafażżolī
(also ʿAmāma), a village in the Lavāsān district at a distance of 39 km north of Tehran, located in a mountainous area 2,230 m above sea level.
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ʿAMĀMA
H. Algar
(or ʿAMMĀMA, Arabic ʿEMĀMA), the turban. Imbued with symbolic significance, the turban was once the almost universal headgear of adult male Muslims.
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AMĀN-E AFḠĀN
I. V. Pourhadi
newspaper of Afghanistan during the reign of King Amānallāh (1337-48/1919-29).
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AMĀNALLĀH
L. B. Poullada
(1892-1961), ruler of Afghanistan (1919-29), first with the title of amir and from 1926 on with that of shah.
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AMĀNAT
M. Baqir
12th/18th century poet in Persian who imitated the style of his teacher, Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Qāder Bīdel.