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  • AMĪR MOḤAMMAD AFŻAL KHAN

    Cross-Reference

    See AFŻAL KHAN.

  • AMĪR NEẒĀM

    A. Amanat

    (AMĪR-E NEẒĀM), the holder of the military and administrative office of emārat-e neẓām in the Qajar period.

  • AMĪR NEẒĀM GARRŪSĪ

    A. Amanat

    known also as Sālār-e Laškar (1236-1317/1820-1900), officer, diplomat, statesman, and literary figure of the Qajar period. 

  • AMĪR NEẒĀM, MOḤAMMAD-RAḤĪM KHAN

    Cross-reference

    (d. 1299/1882), notable of the Qajar tribe and holder of high offices under Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah. See ʿALĀʾ-DAWLA.

  • AMĪR PĀDEŠĀH

    Cross-Reference

    See MOḤAMMAD AMĪR B. MAḤMŪD.

  • AMIR PĀZVĀRI

    Habib Borjian and Maryam Borjian

    semi-legendary poet of Māzandarān.

  • AMĪR ŠAHĪD

    Cross-Reference

    (AMĪR-E ŠAHĪD). See ABŪ NAṢR AḤMAD.

  • AMĪR SAYYED ʿALĪ

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿALĪ AL-AʿLĀ.

  • AMĪR TŪMĀN

    J. Calmard

    (AMĪR-E TŪMĀN) commander of 10,000 men, a military rank originally used by the Il-khanids in the 7th/13th century.

  • AMĪR-AL-MOʾMENĪN

    Cross-Reference

    See ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB.

  • AMĪR-AL-OMARĀʾ

    C. E. Bosworth, R. M. Savory

    literally, “commander of commanders,” hence “supreme commander,” a military title found from the early 4th/10th century onwards, first in Iraq and then in the Iranian lands.

  • AMIR-AʿLAM

    Bāqer ʿĀqeli

    (1861-1961), University professor, representative and deputy speaker of the Majles, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, senator, minister, and responsible for passing of the Health Protection and Smallpox Vaccination Act of 1910 and the Medical Practice Act of 1911.

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  • AMIR-ṬAHMĀSEBI, ʿAbd-Allāh

    Bāqer ʿĀqeli

    Amir-Ṭahmāsebi disarmed the tribes in Azerbaijan and restored security particularly in areas around Ardebil, Ahar and Mešgin-šahr, where the Šāhsavan tribes had exercised their arbitrary and oppressive rule unchecked for years.

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  • AMĪRAK BALʿAMĪ

    Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

    name given to ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD, vizier of the Samanids.

  • AMĪRAK BAYHAQĪ

    C. E. Bosworth

    (d. 448/1056), intelligence officer in Khorasan under the early Ghaznavids.

  • AMĪRAK ṬŪSĪ

    Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

    4th/10th century notable of the ʿAbd-al-Razzāqī family of Ṭūs.

  • AMIRDOVLATʿ AMASIATSʿI

    Avedis K. Sanjian

    (b. Amasya ca. 1420/25; d. Bursa, 1496), Armenian physician at the Ottoman court and author of Angitats Anpet, an encyclopedic polyglot in six languages including Persian.

  • AMIRI, YUSOF

    ANDRÁS BODROGLIGETI

    Persian-Chaghatay poet of the first half of the 15th century. 

  • AMĪRḴĪZĪ, ESMĀʿĪL

    Ī. Afshar

    Iranian man of letters, poet, and political activist, born in the Amīrḵīz quarter of Tabrīz in December 1877.

  • AMITĀYUS

    R. E. Emmerick

    Sanskrit name of one of the transcendental Buddhas, the so-called Dhyāni-Buddhas, of later Buddhism.