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EBN AL-ʿEBRĪ, ABU’L-FARAJ
Herman G. B. Teule
(1225-1286), Syriac historian and polymath. Most of his works were in Syriac, but he also wrote in Arabic. In his Syriac Chronicle, much attention is given to the vicissitudes of the Jacobite and East Syrian, or Nestorian, churches in the “Persian territories.”
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EBN AL-EḴŠĪD, ABŪ BAKR AḤMAD
Daniel Gimaret
b. ʿAlī b. Beḡčor (884-938), Muʿtazilite theologian.
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EBN AL-FAQĪH, ABŪ BAKR AḤMAD
Anas B. Khalidov
b. Moḥammad b. Esḥāq b. Ebrāhīm HAMADĀNĪ Aḵbārī (fl. second half of the 9th century), man of letters, who wrote in Arabic Ketāb aḵbār al- boldān, a geographic work, in which primarily the Islamic world with its centers in Arabia, Persia, and Iraq are described.
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EBN AL-FOWAṬĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ
Charles Melville
(1244-1323), b. Aḥmad, librarian and historian.
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EBN AL-JEʿĀBĪ, ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD
Wilferd Madelung
(897-966), b. ʿOmar Tamīmī Ḥāfeẓ, traditionist with Shiʿite leanings.
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EBN AL-JONAYD, ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD
Wilferd Madelung
or al-Jonaydī; b. Aḥmad Kāteb Eskāfī, 10th century Imami jurist.
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EBN AL-MOQAFFAʿ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH RŌZBEH
J. Derek Latham
(721-757), b. Dādūya/Dādōē, chancery secretary (kāteb) and major Arabic prose writer.
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EBN AL-MOṬAHHAR
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See ḤELLĪ, ʿALLĀMA.
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EBN AL-NADĪM
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Shi'ite scholar and bibliographer of the 10th century, famous as the author of Ketāb al-fehrest. See under FEHREST.
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EBN AL-QAṢṢĀB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR MOʾAYYAD-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Richard W. Bulliet
(b. ca. 1128), b. ʿAlī, Shiʿite vizier of the caliph al-Nāṣer from 1194 to 1195.