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EBN ABĪ JOMHŪR AḤSĀʾĪ, Moḥammad
Todd Lawson
b. Zayn-al-Dīn Abi’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥosām-al-Dīn Ebrāhīm (b. ca. 1433-34; d. after 4 July 1499), Shiʿite thinker.
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EBN ABĪ ṢĀDEQ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABD-al-RAḤMĀN
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad NAYŠĀBŪRĪ (Nīšāpūr, 11th century), medical author known in the century after his death, at least in Khorasan, as “the second Hippocrates," and reportedly a student of Avicenna.
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EBN ABĪ ṬĀHER ṬAYFŪR, ABU’L-FAŻL AḤMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
(819-93), littérateur (adīb) and historian of Baghdad, of a Khorasani family.
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EBN ABI’L ḤADĪD
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EBN AL-ʿAMĪD
Ihsan Abbas
cognomen of two famous viziers of the 4th/10th century: Abu’l-Fażl and his son Abu’l-Fatḥ.
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EBN AL-ʿARABĪ, MOḤYĪ-al-DĪN Abū ʿAbd-Allāh Moḥammad Ṭāʾī Ḥātemī
William C. Chittick
(b. 28 July 1165; d. 10 November 1240), the most influential Sufi author of later Islamic history, known to his supporters as al-Šayḵ al-akbar, “the Greatest Master.”
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EBN AL-AṮĪR, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
D. S. Richards
b. Moḥammad Jazarī (b. Jazīrat Ebn ʿOmar [modern Cizre, in eastern Turkey] 13 May 1160; d. Mosul, June 1233), major Islamic historian and important source for the history of Persia and adjacent areas from the Samanids to the first Mongol invasion.
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EBN AL-BALḴĪ
C. Edmund Bosworth
conventional name for an otherwise unknown author of Fārs-nāma, a local history and geography of the province of Fārs written in Persian during the Saljuq period.
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EBN AL-BAYṬĀR, ŻĪĀʾ-AL-DĪN ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH
Hūšang Aʿlam
b. Aḥmad (?-1248), Andalusian botanist and pharmacologist.
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EBN AL-BAYYEʿ
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