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• ʿARAB v. Arab-Iranian relations in modern times

  R. K. Ramazani

  The military coup of Reżā Khan (1921) and his accession to the throne (1925) resulted in sufficient governmental capacity to conduct foreign affairs effectively. Reżā Shah’s good-neighbor policy addressed three major problems with Iraq.

• ʿARAB MĪŠMAST

  P. Oberling

  an Arab tribe of Fārs, Tehran, and Khorasan.  

• ʿARAB MOḤAMMAD B. ḤĀJJĪ

  G. L. Penrose

  khan of Ḵīva 1013-32/1602-23 (?).

• ARAB-SASANIAN COINS

  M. Bates

  Arab-Sasanian is a term applied to several different coinages of early Islamic Iran which were issued under Arab authority using the design and inscriptions of the preceding Sasanian coinage.

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• ʿARABESTĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ḴŪZESTĀN.

• ARABIA

  Multiple Authors

  i. The Achaemenid province Arabāya. ii. The Sasanians and Arabia.

• ARABIA i. THE ACHAEMENID PROVINCE ARABĀYA

  M. Dandamayev

  In the Bīsotūn and other Old Persian inscriptions that list provinces of the Achaemenid empire in a geographical sequence, Arabāya is placed after Babylonia and Assyria (i.e., Syria) and before Egypt.

• ARABIA ii. The Sasanians and Arabia

  Daniel T. Potts

  Within a few years after the commencement of Ardašir I’s (r. ca. 224-242) program of conquest, the Sasanians undertook military engagements in both northeastern Arabia and Oman.

• ARABIAN NIGHTS

  Cross-Reference

  See ALF LAYLA WA LAYLA.

• ARABIAN SEA

  Cross-Reference

  See OMAN, SEA OF.