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AMATUNI
C. Toumanoff
Armenian dynastic house, known historically after the 4th century CE.
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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).
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AMAZONS IN THE IRANIAN WORLD
Adrienne Mayor
Women warriors who gloried in fighting, hunting, and exercised sexual freedom in Persian literature and Iranian history and culture.
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ĀMED
Cross-Reference
See AMIDA.
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ĀMEDĪ
E. Kohlberg
6th/12th century traditionist.
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ʿĀMEL
C. E. Bosworth
the holder of an administrative office in the pre-modern Islamic world.
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ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ
Cross-Reference
See AḤMAD ʿALAWĪ.
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ʿĀMELĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ, ABU’L-ḤASAN
H. Corbin
Shiʿite theologian and author (d. Najaf, 1138/1726).
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ʿĀMELĪ, ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM
Cross-Reference
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ʿĀMELĪ, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN
Cross-Reference
See BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ.