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ʿARAŻ
F. Rahman
a term of philosophy meaning “accident.”
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ARBĀB
Š. Rāseḵ
the plural of the Arabic noun rabb “owner, master, the Lord,” used in Persian to signify any sort of owner or master.
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ARBĀB KAY-ḴOSROW-E ŠĀHROḴ
Cross-Reference
See ŠĀHROḴ.
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ARBĀB ROSTAM GĪV
Cross-Reference
See GĪV.
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ARBĀB, MOḤAMMAD-MAHDĪ
S. Okazaki
a prominent merchant and scholar of Isfahan (fl. ca. 1818-1896/97).
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ARBACES
M. A. Dandamayev
Greek form of an Old Iranian proper name.
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ARBAʿĪN
M. Ayoub
40th day after ʿĀšūrāʾ. A day of mourning, preferably at the shrine of Imam Ḥosayn, Arbaʿīn forms part of a cycle of days commemorating the burial of the imam and his companions.
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ARBĀYISTĀN
G. Widengren
name of a Mesopotamian province in the Sasanian empire.
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ARBELA
J. F. Hansman
capital of an ancient northern Mesopotamian province located between the two Zab rivers.
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ARBELA, BATTLE OF
Cross-Reference
the victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III on 1 October 331 BCE.; see GAUGAMELA.