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ABŪ DOLAF ʿEJLĪ
F. M. Donner
Arab military chieftain, author, poet, governor, and boon companion for several ʿAbbasid caliphs, and most important member of the ʿEǰlī dynasty of western Iran, flourished in the early 3rd/9th century.
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ABŪ ʿEKREMA
D. M. Dunlop
a freedman of Banū Ḥamdān, regarded as the first ʿAbbasid propagandist in Khorasan.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ AL-ŠĪRĀZĪ
W. Madelung
Shafeʿite jurist, b. 393/1003 in Fīrūzābād in Fār.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ AṬʿEMA
Cross-Reference
(d. 1420s) satirical poet who used Persian culinary vocabulary and imagery and kitchen terminology to create a novel style of poetry. See BOSḤĀQ AṬʿEMA.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM
C. E. Bosworth
governor of Ḡazna in eastern Afghanistan on behalf of the Samanids (352/963-355/966).
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ ĪNJŪ
J. W. Limbert
(721-58/1321-59), ruler of Fārs, ʿErāq ʿAǰam (Isfahan), and parts of southern Iran, 743-55/1343-54.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ KĀZARŪNĪ
B. Lawrence
Sufi and eponymous founder of the Kāzarūnīya/Esḥāqīya order.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ NAẒẒĀM
J. van Ess
famous adīb and Muʿtazilite theologian.
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ABŪ ESḤĀQ ŠĀMĪ
Mutiul Imam
founder and eminent early saint of the Češtī order (3rd-4th/9th-10th century).
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ABŪ ḤAFṢ ḤADDĀD
J. Chabbi
an ascetic who was born and lived in Nīšāpūr, d. between 265/874 and 270/879.
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ABŪ ḤAFṢ SOḠDĪ
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
one of the so-called “first poets” in New Persian.
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ABŪ ḤĀMED TORKA
Fazlur Rahman
scholar and author of the late 7th/13th and early 8th/14th centuries, the first in a line of prominent men of the Torka-ye Eṣfahānī family.
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ABŪ ḤAMZA ḴORĀSĀNĪ
B. Reinert
(d. 290/903), Sufi born and active in Nīšāpūr.
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ABŪ ḤANĪFA
U. F. ʿAbd-Allāh
(80-150/699-767), eponym of the Ḥanafī school of Islamic law—the largest of the four primary Sunni schools of law
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ABŪ ḤANĪFA ESKĀFĪ
Cross-Reference
See ESKĀFĪ, ABŪ ḤANĪFA.
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ABŪ HĀŠEM ʿABDALLĀH
T. Nagel
ʿAlid figure in Shiʿite tradition.
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ABŪ ḤĀTEM RĀZĪ
H. Halm
Ismaʿili dāʿī (missionary) and author of the 4th/10th century.
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ABŪ ḤAYYĀN TAWḤĪDĪ
W. M. Watt
an outstanding man of letters and essayist of the Buyid period.
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ABŪ ʿĪSĀ EṢFAHĀNĪ
J. Lassner
founder of the ʿĪsāwīya, an obscure Jewish sect in Islamic times.
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ABŪ ʿĪSĀ WARRĀQ
W. M. Watt
heretical theologian of the 3rd/9th century.