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ĀTAŠDĀN
M. Boyce
“place of fire, fire-holder,” designates the altar-like repository for a sacred wood-fire in a Zoroastrian place of worship.
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ATASHI, MANUCHEHR
Saeed Rezaei
Missing the bucolic backdrop of his childhood, Manucher Atashi soon dropped out of school and left the city to live in Čāh-kutāh, a village near Bušehr, where he worked as a shepherd and fell in love with a young girl, who eventually married another man and died at an early age.
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ĀTAŠKADA
M. Boyce
“house of fire,” a Zoroastrian term for a consecrated building in which there is an ever-burning sacred fire.
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ATEŞ, AHMED
Tahsin Yazici
(1911-1966), Turkish orientalist and scholar of Persian literature.
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ATHENAIOS OF NAUCRATIS
J. Duchesne-Guillemin
author of the Deipnosophistai, his only extant work, in which in about a hundred passages he deals with things Persian.
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AṮĪR AḴSĪKATĪ
Z. Safa
Poet of the 6th/12th century with a distinctive style.
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AṮĪR OWMĀNĪ
Z. Safa
Poet of the ʿErāqī (western Iranian) school of the 7th/13th century (d. 665/1266).
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AṮĪR-AL-DĪN ABHARĪ
Cross-Reference
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ATKINSON, James A.
A. Karimi-Hakkak
(1780-1852), a notable British orientalist, a scholar of the Persian language and literature, and the translator of Persian literature.
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ATOSSA
R. Schmitt
Achaemenid queen.