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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).
AʿMĀ
I. ABBAS
7th-8th century poet from Azerbaijan who
wrote in Arabic.
AMAHRASPAND
CROSS-REFERENCE
See AMƎŠA SPƎNTA.
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).
ʿAMALA
P. OBERLING
(literally: workers, retainers), the retinue of a
tribal chief, and the name of a number of
tribes.
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.
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.
AMĀN-E AFḠĀN
I. V. POURHADI
newspaper of Afghanistan during the reign
of King Amānallāh (1337-48/1919-29).
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.
AMĀNAT
M. BAQIR
12th/18th century poet in Persian who
imitated the style of his teacher, Mīrzā ʿAbd-
al-Qāder Bīdel.
AMĀNAT KHAN ŠĪRĀZĪ
W. E. BEGLEY
When Shah Jahān’s wife Momtāz Maḥall died
in childbirth (17 Ḏu’l-qaʿda 1040/17 June
1631), ʿAbd-al-Ḥaqq was appointed to select
the Koranic passages and design the
calligraphy for her tomb. One year later, the
emperor honored him with the title Amānat
Khan and promoted him to the manṣab rank
of 900.
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AMĀNI
FABRIZIO SPEZIALE
pen name of Amān-Allāh Khan, Ḵān-e
Zamān, an Indo-Muslim physician and author
of works on medicine (d. 1637).
ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ
J. MATĪNĪ
Having attained a degree of literary prowess
in his home of Bokhara he went to the
Qarakhanid court in Samarkand in 460/1068.
ĀMĀR
CROSS-REFERENCE
See DEMOGRAPHY.
AMAR NĀTH
B. AHMAD
Persian writer and poet of the Punjab under
the Sikhs (1822-67).
ʿAMĀRA MARVAZĪ
J. MATĪNĪ
Persian poet of the late Samanid/early
Ghaznavid periods.
AMARANTH
CROSS-REFERENCE
See BOSTĀNAFRŪZ.
ĀMĀRGAR
D. N. MACKENZIE, M. L. CHAUMONT
a Middle and New Persian word designating
a person holding a particular administrative
post.
AʿMAŠ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD
E. KOHLBERG
SOLAYMĀN B. MEḤRĀN ASADĪ (in some
sources, erroneously, Azdī) KĀHELĪ KŪFĪ,
1st-2nd/7th-8th century Shiʿite scholar,
traditionist, and Koran reader.
AMASYA, PEACE OF
M. KÖHBACH
(8 Raǰab 962/29 May 1555), treaty signed
between Iran and the Ottomans and
observed for some twenty years.
AMATUNI
C. TOUMANOFF
Armenian dynastic house, known historically
after the 4th century CE.
AMAZONS
A. SH. SHAHBAZI
designation of a fabulous race of female
warriors in Greek beliefs, writings, and art,
fancifully explained as a-mazos (breastless
or full-breasted).
ĀMED
CROSS-REFERENCE
See AMIDA.
ĀMEDĪ
E. KOHLBERG
6th/12th century traditionist.
ʿĀMEL
C. E. BOSWORTH
the holder of an administrative office in the
pre-modern Islamic world.
ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ
CROSS-REFERENCE
See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.
ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN
H. CORBIN
Shiʿite theologian and author (d. Najaf,
1138/1726).
ʿĀMELĪ, ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM
CROSS-REFERENCE
See ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM ʿĀMELĪ.
ʿĀMELĪ, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN
CROSS-REFERENCE
See BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ.
AMƎRƎTĀT
CROSS-REFERENCE
See AMURDĀD.
ʿĀMERĪ NĪŠĀPŪRĪ
H. CORBIN
(d. 381/992), important philosopher from
Khorasan between Fārābī and Avicenna.
AMƎŠA SPƎNTA
M. BOYCE
an Avestan term for beneficent divinity,
meaning literally “Holy/Bounteous Immortal”
(Pahl. Amešāspand, [A]mahraspand).
AMESTRIS
R. SCHMITT
no. 4. Niece of of Darius III, d. ca. 280 BCE.
She was married to the Macedonian general
Craterus, then to the tyrant Dionysius in
Bithynia, and to Lysimachus, king of Thrace,
before ruling alone in Paphlagonia.