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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.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ KĀZARŪNĪ

  B. Lawrence

  Sufi and eponymous founder of the Kāzarūnīya/Esḥāqīya order.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ NAẒẒĀM

  J. van Ess

  famous adīb and Muʿtazilite theologian.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ ŠĀMĪ

  Mutiul Imam

  founder and eminent early saint of the Češtī order (3rd-4th/9th-10th century).

• ABŪ ḤAFṢ ḤADDĀD

  J. Chabbi

  an ascetic who was born and lived in Nīšāpūr, d. between 265/874 and 270/879.

• ABŪ ḤAFṢ SOḠDĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  one of the so-called “first poets” in New Persian.

• 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.

• ABŪ ḤAMZA ḴORĀSĀNĪ

  B. Reinert

  (d. 290/903), Sufi born and active in Nīšāpūr.

• 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

• ABŪ ḤANĪFA ESKĀFĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ESKĀFĪ, ABŪ ḤANĪFA.

• ABŪ HĀŠEM ʿABDALLĀH

  T. Nagel

   ʿAlid figure in Shiʿite tradition.

• ABŪ ḤĀTEM RĀZĪ

  H. Halm

  Ismaʿili dāʿī (missionary) and author of the 4th/10th century.

• ABŪ ḤAYYĀN TAWḤĪDĪ

  W. M. Watt

  an outstanding man of letters and essayist of the Buyid period.

• ABŪ ʿĪSĀ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  J. Lassner

  founder of the ʿĪsāwīya, an obscure Jewish sect in Islamic times.

• ABŪ ʿĪSĀ WARRĀQ

  W. M. Watt

  heretical theologian of the 3rd/9th century.

• ABŪ JAʿFAR B. AḤMAD

  D. Pingree

  mid- to late 3rd/9th century astronomer, son of a famous astronomer from Marv.

• ABŪ JAʿFAR ḴĀZEN

  D. Pingree

  astronomer (ca. 287/900-probably 360/970).

• ABŪ ḴĀLĪJĀR ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN.

• ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR GARŠĀSP (I)

  C. E. Bosworth

  second son of the Kakuyid amir of Jebāl, ʿAlāʾ-al-dawla Moḥammad b. Došmanzīār, ruled in Hamadān and parts of what are now Kurdistan and Luristan, 433-37/1041-42 to 1045, d. 443/1051-52.

• ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR GARŠĀSP (II)

  C. E. Bosworth

  member of the Dailamite dynasty of the Kakuyids (d. 536/1141?).