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INDEX

Abadan
261

Abbas I, Shah (Abbas the Great)
134–8

Abbas II, Shah
141

Abbas III, Shah
156–7

Abbas Mirza
178
,
183
,
185–6

Abbasid dynasty
80–6
,
91

Abdali Afghans
151
,
153

Abrahamian, Ervand
234

Abu Muslim
80

Abu’l Abbas
80

Achaemenes (Hakhamanish)
5
,

Achaemenids (dynasty)
6
,
11–27
,
34
,
35
,
42
,
44
,
45
,
51
,
60
,
256

adalatkhaneh
205

Adhurpat
57

adhvenak
9
,

Al-Afghani, Jamal Al-Din
201–2

Albright, Secretary
283

Afghanistan,
xvi
,
198
,
191
,
288

Afshars
135

Ahmadinejad, Mahmud
230
,
289–90
,
293–4
,
295

Ahmad Shah
220
,
223

Ahmad Shah Durrani (formerly Ahmad Khan Abdali)
167–8

Ahriman
7–8

Ahura Mazda
7–9

Aisha
75

Ajam
82
,
108

Ajnadayn
76

Akhbaris
174

Akoman
8
,

Alborz (mountains)
3
,
4
,
128

Alexander (Iskander)
17
,
28–32
,
33
,
43
,
132
,
167

Alexandria
29
,
32

Ali
79–80
,
124–6
,
130–2

Ali Qoli (later Adel Shah)
165
,
167

Alp Arslan
93

Amanpour, Christiane
283

Amida (Diyarbekir)
58

Amir Kabir
195

Amol
84

Amesha Spenta
7
,

Amin od-Dawleh
203

Amin ol-Sultan
203

Amuzegar, Jamshid
258

Anahita
7
,
57

Andragoras
34

Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC – later Anglo-Iranian – AIOC)
216
,
236

anjoman
208

Antioch
33
,
39
,
67
,
68

Ansari, Ali
279

Anshan
2
,
11
,
13

Aq Qoyunlu
121
,
131

Aquinas
85

Ibn Arabi
109–11
,
138
,
249
,
265
,
275

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (later Shah)
170–4
,
178

Arabic language
2
,
72
,
81
,
82
,
85–6

Arak
295
,
295

Aral Sea
34

Aramaic language
2
,
23

Araxes (river)
5
,
183

Arberry
95
,
113

Arcadius
59

Ardashir I
45–9

Ardashir II
59

Ardebil
129
,
130
,
137

Aristotle
17
,
84
,
85

Armenia, Armenians
16
(map),
37
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
43
,
48
,
57
,
59
,
61
,
66
,
68
,
73
,
92
(map),
134–6
,
144
,
157
,
184
,
187
,
191
,
199
,
208
,
264
(map),
284

army (Persian, Iranian)
29
,
37
,
45
,
76
,
134–5
,
151
,
154–5
,
158
,
161–2
,
167
,
182
,
183
,
185
,
195
,
196
,
220
,
222
,
226–7
,
232
,
234
,
238
,
239
,
242
,
263
,
268
,
273
,
305
, Arsaces (Arshak)
34

Arsacids
34
,
36
,
43

arta
(
asha
)
10
,
19

Artabanus (Ardavan) IV
44
,
45

Artaxerxes I (Artakhshathra)
26

Artaxerxes II
26

Artaxerxes III
27

asabiyah
76

Ashraf Ghilzai
152

Ashura
124–5
,
176–7

Aslanduz
183

Assassins
105
,
128
,
165
,
167

Assembly of Experts
269

Assyria, Assyrians
2
,
4–5
,
12

Astarabadi, Mirza Mahdi
166

Astyages
11
,

Atatürk
223
,
226
,
230
,
231

Athens
25–6
,
29

Attar, Farid Al-Din
99–101
,
117

Augustine, Saint, of Hippo
54–5

Augustus
41

Aurelian
56

Averroes
85

Avesta
4
,
10
,
41

Avicenna
84
,
85
,
97
,
138
,
275

awqaf
137

ayatollah
175

Azarethes
66

Azari, Farah
281
,
308
n.

Azarmedokht
69

Azerbaijan, Azeris
4
,
5
,
40
,
117
,
129
,
178
,
183
,
186
,
190
,
217
,
220
,
237–8

Baath party
272

Babi movement
191–3

Babol
190

Babylonia
2
,
10
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
26

Bactria,
5
,
34

Bagoas
27

Baghdad
80
,
81
,
82–83
,
84
,
91
,
105
,
119
,
135
,
141
,
142
,
156
,
163

Baha’is
191
,
193
,
204
,
210
,
257
,
285

Bahar, Mohammad Taqi
139

Baha’ullah
193

Bahman (Vohu Manu)
7

Bahrain
151
,
290

Bahram IV
59

Bahram V (Bahram Gur)
60–61

Bahram Chubin
66

Bakhtiar, Shapur
257

Bakhtiari
168
,
212
,
214
,
218
,
222

Baku
181
,
232

Balkh
77
,
87
,
91
,
107
,
121