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ABŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR
Kh. A. Nizami
(also known as SHAH BŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR), Indian poet and saint, d. 725/1324. His mausoleum at Panipat remains a popular center for pilgrimage.
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ABŪ ʿAMR AL-MĀZOLĪ
J. van Ess
Karrāmī theologian, fl. mid-4th/mid-10th century.
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ABŪ ʿAṬĀ
G. Tsuge
one of the twelve modes in the dastgāh system of classical Iranian music; more precisely, it should be called āvāz-e Abū ʿAṭā or naḡma-ye Abū ʿAṭā.
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ABŪ ʿAWĀNA
J. A. Wakin
a Shafeʿite legal scholar and traditionist.
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ABŪ ʿAWN
R. W. Bulliet
a distinguished ʿAbbasid general, twice governor of Egypt and once of Khorasan.
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ABŪ BAKR AL-WARRĀQ
B. Reinert
Sufi shaikh, born in Termeḏ, lived and worked in Balḵ, d. 280/893.
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ABŪ BAKR B. ABĪ ṢĀLEḤ
C. E. Bosworth
vizier of the Ghaznavids in the 5th/11th century.
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ABŪ BAKR B. PAHLAVĀN
Cross-Reference
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ABŪ BAKR B. SAʿD
B. Spuler
(623-58/1226-60), member of the Salghurid dynasty, atabeg of Fārs.
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ABŪ BAKR ḤAṢĪRĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
Shafeʿite faqīh (jurist) and Ghaznavid official, d. 424/1033.
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ABŪ BAKR KALĀBĀḎĪ
W. Madelung
author of the well-known compendium of Sufism al-Taʿarrof le-maḏhab ahl al-taṣawwof.
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ABŪ BAKR MARVAZĪ
A. A. Ivanov
7th/13th century metalworker.
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ABŪ BAKR NAYSĀBŪRĪ
M. J. McDermott
a jurist loosely belonging to the Shafeʿite school.
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ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs; himself a poet, he patronized poetry generously.
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ABŪ BAKR SAMARQANDĪ
I. Abbas
(d. 268/881), a Hanafite jurist about whose life the available sources furnish no information.
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ABŪ BAKR SARAḴSĪ
J. W. Clinton
a follower (but apparently not a contemporary) of Shaikh Abū Saʿīd b. Abi’l-Ḵayr (d. 440/1049).
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ABŪ BAKR ṬŪSĪ ḤAYDARĪ
B. Lawrence
7th/13th century Indo-Muslim saint.
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ABŪ ḎARR BŪZJĀNĪ
M. N. Osmanov
a Persian poet and Sufi shaikh contemporary with Sebüktigin (d. 387/997).
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ABŪ ḎARR HERAVĪ
J. A. Wakin
a traditionist known primarily for his role in the transmission of Boḵārī’s Jāmeʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ.
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ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ
R. W. Bulliet
Arab traveler, poet, and frequenter of the Buyid court (ca. mid-4th/10th century).