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EBN AL-ṬEQṬAQĀ, ṢAFĪ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Charles Melville
(1262 ?-after 1309 ?), b. ʿAlī b. Ṭabāṭabā, historian and naqīb of the ʿAlids in Ḥella.
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EBN AMĀJŪR
Cross-Reference
See BANŪ AMĀJŪR.
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EBN ʿĀMER
Cross-Reference
See ʿABD-ALLĀH B. ʿĀMER.
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EBN ʿARABŠĀH, ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD
John E. Woods
(1389-Cairo, 1450), b. Moḥammad … Ḥanafī ʿAjamī, literary scholar and biographer of Tamerlane (Tīmūr).
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EBN AṢDAQ, MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD
Stephen Lambden
(b. Mašhad 1850; d. Tehran, 1928), prominent Bahai missionary.
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EBN AŠTAR
D.M. Dunlop
(d. at Maskin on the Tigris, in September-October 691), Arab chief and Shiʿite military leader.
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EBN ʿAṬṬĀŠ
Cross-Reference
See ʿAṬṬĀŠ.
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EBN ʿAYYĀŠ, ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM
Daniel Gimaret
b. Moḥammad Baṣrī, Muʿtazilite theologian (d. late 10th century), member of the so-called “school of Baṣra” and a partisan of the ideas of Abū Hāšem Jobbāʾī.
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EBN BĀBĀ KĀŠĀNĪ (Qāšānī), ABU’L-ʿABBĀS
C. Edmund Bosworth
(d. Marv, 1116-17), Persian writer and boon-companion (nadīm), whose manual for courtiers preserves otherwise lost information on the later Ghaznavids.
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EBN BĀBAWAYH (1)
Sheila S. Blair
(Bābūya), family of Persian builders, luster potters, and tile makers, descended from the Shiʿite scholar Ebn Bābūya al-Ṣadūq (d. 991) and active in the 12th-14th centuries.