Alāns - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Alāns - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Golden, Peter B.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060461
Doc. NO	:	ALei858
Main Entry	:	Golden, Peter B.
Title & Author	:	Alāns - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Golden, Peter B.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,051 words)
Abstract	:	The Alāns were an Iranian people of the western Eurasian steppes and North Caucasus, noted by Graeco-Roman authors (as Ἀλανοί, Ἀλανορρσοί, Alani, or Halani) since the first century C.E. Middle Persian and Modern Persian Alān (= Īrān < āryāna < aryānām (genit. pl.) < *arya (“Aryan”), with the shift ry > l characteristic of some Scythian dialects) = Arabic al-Lān (sometimes ʿAlāniyya), Hebrew Alan, and Armenian Alankʿ. The mediaeval Alāns were sometimes known as Ās/Āṣ in Islamic sources (cf. Georgian Ows-i, Mongol Asud (pl.), Hungarian Jász). Their
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei858.pdf