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AMLĀK
E. Hooglund
(plural of melk), privately owned agricultural estates; the term (of Arabic origin) designates a form of rural land tenure pattern that existed simultaneously in Iran with various other types of land holdings over several centuries.
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AMLĀK-E ḴĀṢṢA
Cross-Reference
See ḴĀṢṢA.
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AMLAŠ
Multiple Authors
i. Geography. ii. Excavations.
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AMLAŠ i. Geography
Marcel Bazin
small town and district in the southeastern part of Gilān Province.
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AMLAŠ ii. Excavations
R. H. Dyson
small village in southeastern Gilān which, since 1959, has given its name to a large assortment of archeological artifacts derived from illegal, clandestine excavations in the nearby valleys of the Alborz range.
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ʿĀMMA
E. Kohlberg
(pl. ʿawāmm), a common Emāmī Shiʿite appellation for the Sunnites.
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ʿAMMĀRA
Cross-Reference
See ʿAMĀRA.
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ʿAMMĀRLŪ
P. Oberling
a Kurdish tribe of Gīlān and Khorasan.
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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS
M. L. Chaumont
historian who provides important information on the Sasanians (b. ca. 330-35).
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AMMITMANYA
M. Mayrhoffer
an Iranian, to whom were entrusted 215 (?) BAR of grain provided for provisions at Tukraš.