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• 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

  Jahāngīr writes that sixteen miniatures are by Behzād, five by his teacher Mīrak, and one by ʿAbd-al-Razzāq. Earlier investigators did not succeed in establishing convincing attributions of the miniatures to these artists, as they were also puzzled by numerous apocryphal signatures and false identifications attached to the paintings.

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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).

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ b. AḤMAD b. ḤASAN MEYMANDI

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier to the Ghaznavid sultans Mawdud b. Masʿud and ʿAbd-al-Rašid b. Maḥmud, remaining in official service under the latter’s successor Farroḵzād b. Masʿud.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BĀŠTĪNĪ

  J. Aubin

  First leader of the Sarbadār uprising of Bayhaq (14th-century). His career, like the entire history of the Sarbadārs, is related in a contradictory fashion by the Timurid period chroniclers. With appropriate details, he is pictured as violent and dissolute.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BEG

  J. R. Perry

  (1176-1243/1762-63 to 1827-28), literary biographer, poet, and historian of the early Qajar period.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ

  W. Madelung

  Theologian and philosopher (and poet under the pen name FAYYĀŻ, 11th/17th century).

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ MAYMANDĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid vizier of the middle years of the 5th/11th century.

• ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ NAYSABŪRĪ

  E. Baer

  Metalworker of the second half of the 6th/12th century.