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• ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KHAN

  Cross-Reference

  Emir or ruler of Afghanistan, and member of the Bārakzay tribe of the Dorrāni tribal confederation, who unified the kingdom after the second Anglo-Afghan war (r. 1297-1319/1880-1901). See AFGHANISTAN x. Political History, BĀRAKZI, and DORRĀNI.

• ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KᵛĀRAZMĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher specializing in nastaʿlīq, active during the middle decades of the 9th/15th century.

• ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SAMARQANDĪ

  Y. Bregel

  late 19th century secretary (mīrzā). A Tajik, he was a native of Samarqand. 

• ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SARAḴSĪ

  I. Abbas

  A Hanafite jurist (d. 1047).

• ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN ŠAYZARĪ

  H. H. Biesterfeldt

  Syrian author and contemporary of Saladin (d. 589/1193).

• ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD DAYLAMĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher and poet who served the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān (1037-58/1628-58).

• ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD TATTAVĪ

  W. M. Thackston

  Noted lexicographer attached to the court of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān.

• ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD, ABŪ MANṢŪR

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid sultan, r. 441-44/1050-53.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ

  D. Duda

  Name of two artists of the Safavid period.

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• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ AWRANGĀBĀDĪ

  Hameed ud-Din

  Mughal official and biographer, chiefly famous as the author of Maʾāṯer al-omarāʾ (18th century).