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ASTARĀBĀD
C. E. Bosworth, S. Blair
(or ESTERĀBĀD), the older Islamic name for the modern town of Gorgān in northeastern Iran, and also the name of an administrative province in Qajar times.
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ASTARĀBĀD BAY
E. Ehlers
a lagoon in the extreme southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.
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ASTARĀBĀD-ARDAŠĪR
Cross-Reference
See KARḴ MAYSĀN.
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ASTARĀBĀDĪ, ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR
Cross-Reference
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ASTARĀBĀDĪ, FAŻLALLĀH
H. Algar
(d. 796/1394), founder of the Ḥorūfī religion.
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ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MAHDĪ KHAN
J. R. Perry
court secretary and historiographer to Nāder Shah Afšār (r. 1148-60/1736-47).
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ASTARĀBĀDĪ, MOḤAMMAD AMĪN
E. Kohlberg
founder of the 17th-century Aḵbārī school.
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AŠTARAK
KAMRAN EKBAL
a village in the Ābārān district about six miles northwest of Yerevan (Iravān) in a mountainous region of the Caucasus.
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AŠTARJĀN
R. Hillenbrand
(OŠTORJĀN), name of a subdistrict (dehestān) and its chief village, lying southwest of Isfahan.
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ĀSTARKĪ
J. Qāʾem-Maqāmī
(or AŠTARKĪ), one sub-tribe of the six which presently constitute the Dūrkī tribe of the Haft Lang confederation of the Baḵtīārī people.