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• ANJOMAN-E VELĀYATI

  ʿAli Reżā Abtaḥi

  (Provincial Council) of Isfahan, set up subsequent to the establishment of the Parliament (majles) to secure the aims of the Constitutional Revolution.

• ANJOMAN-E ZARTOŠTĪĀN

  M. Kasheff

  (Society of Zoroastrians), the designation of formally instituted Zoroastrian associations in Iran.

• ANJOMANĀRĀ, FARHANG-E

  R. ʿAfīfī

  Persian-language dictionary compiled by Reżā-qolī Khan Hedāyat (1215-88/1800-71) known as Lala-bāšī.

• ʿANKABŪTĪĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ARACHNIDS.

• ANKLESARIA, BAHRAMGORE TAHMURAS

  K. M. JamaspAsa and M. Boyce

  (1873-1944), Parsi scholar, son of Tahmuras Dinshah Anklesaria, born and educated in Bombay.

• ANKLESARIA, PESHOTAN KAVASHAH

  K. M JamaspAsa and M. Boyce

  (1928-69), Parsi priest and scholar born at Broach.  

• ANKLESARIA, TAHMURAS DINSHAH

  K. M. Jamaspasa and M. Boyce

  (1842-1903), Parsi priest and scholar.

• ʿANNAZIDS

  K. M. Aḥmad

  (BANŪ ʿANNĀZ), a Kurdish dynasty (r. ca. 380-510/990-1117).

• ANŌŠAG-RUWĀN

  C. J. Brunner

  "of immortal soul", originally a respectful euphemism, becoming in the Islamic period an aristocratic proper name.

• ANŌŠAZĀD

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  (in the Šāh-nāma, Nōšzād; the name means “son of the immortal”), a son of Ḵosrow I Anōšīravān and leader of a revolt in ca. 550 CE.