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ABU’L-ŠAYḴ EṢFAHĀNĪ
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Traditionist and Koran commentator, important principally for his Ṭabaqāt al-moḥaddeṯī (274-369/887-979). See EṢFAHĀNĪ, ABU’L-ŠAYḴ.
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ABU’L-TAYYEB ṬABARĪ
J. Wakin
Jurisconsult, judge (qāżī), and professor of legal sciences; he was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the leading Shafeʿites of 5th/11th century Baghdad.
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ABU’L-ṬAYYEB ṬĀHER
M. Forstner
founder of the Taherid dynasty of Khorasan; born 139/775-76 in Pūšang (Būšang), died 207/822 in Marv.
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ABU’L-WAFĀ B. SAʿID
D. Pingree
Author in Persian (15th century).
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ABU’L-WAFĀ BŪZJĀNI
D. Pingree
Mathematician and astronomer (10th-11th century).
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ABU’L-WAFĀʾ ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ
H. Landolt
Famous Sufi of Kobrawī affiliation, esoterist, scholar, poet, and musician (d. 835/1431-32).
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ABU’L-WAFĀʾ ŠĪRĀZĪ
H. Algar
Sufi of Shiraz, morīd of the well-known preacher, mystic and writer, Shah Dāʿī Elā Allāh Šīrāzī (fl. 10th/16th century).
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ABU’L-WAZIR MARVAZĪ
L. A. Giffen
Secretary and author (d. 186/802).
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ABU’L-YANBAḠĪ
Y. Richard
Iranian poet (d. 230/844).
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ABYĀNA
E. Yarshater
From a number of lingering old customs and practices it appears that the total conversion of Abyāna from Zoroastrianism to Islam took place relatively late. The inhabitants exhibit with pride an awareness of the ancient customs of the village.
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ABYĀNAʾĪ
E. Yarshater
Dialect spoken in the village of Abyāna, one of a number of closely similar dialects spoken in the villages of Kāšān and its neighboring districts, all belonging to the Central Dialects of Iran (or Southern Median).
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ĀBYĀR
E. Ehlers
Title of the person given official charge of the irrigation of ābī “irrigated” lands.
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ĀBYĀRĪ
B. Spooner
Persian term meaning "irrigation." Although dry farming is important in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Khorasan, as well as some other districts, a large proportion of Iran’s agriculture has always depended upon irrigation. This article concentrates on the preindustrial forms that not only have been important in the evolution of Iranian culture and civilization but have constituted an important Iranian contribution to the development of water management systems in other parts of the world.
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ABZARĪ, ḴᵛĀJA ʿAMĪD-AL-DĪN
A. E. Khairallah
Poet and the vizier of the Salghurid Atabeg of Fārs Saʿd b. Zangī (594-623/1197-1226).
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ABZŌN
M. F. Kanga
Middle Persian term meaning “prosperity, increase” in Zoroastrianism.
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Ab~ CAPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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