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ABŪ JAʿFAR B. AḤMAD
D. Pingree
mid- to late 3rd/9th century astronomer, son of a famous astronomer from Marv.
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ABŪ JAʿFAR ḴĀZEN
D. Pingree
astronomer (ca. 287/900-probably 360/970).
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ABŪ ḴĀLĪJĀR ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN
Cross-Reference
See ʿEMĀD-AL-DĪN MARZBĀN.
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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.
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ABŪ KĀLĪJĀR GARŠĀSP (II)
C. E. Bosworth
member of the Dailamite dynasty of the Kakuyids (d. 536/1141?).
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ABŪ LOʾLOʾA
Ch. Pellat
a Persian slave of Moḡīra b. Šoʿba, the governor of Baṣra, who assassinated the caliph ʿOmar b. al-Ḵaṭṭāb, on Wednesday, 26 Ḏu’l-ḥeǰǰa 23/2 November 644.
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ABŪ MANṢŪR ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
a dehqān (landowner) of Ṭūs, official under the Samanids, and patron of a lost prose Šāh-nāma (Šāh-nāma-ye Abū Manṣūrī).
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ABŪ MANṢŪR FARĀMARZ
C. E. Bosworth
eldest son of the Kakuyid amir of Jebāl, ʿAlāʾ-al-dawla Moḥammad b. Došmanzīār.
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ABŪ MANṢŪR HERAVĪ
L. Richter-Bernburg
(fl. ca. 370-80/980-90), author of the oldest preserved Persian text on materia medica, Ketāb al-abnīa ʿan ḥaqāʾeq al-adwīa.
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ABŪ MANṢŪR MAʿMARĪ
Dj. Khalegi-Motlagh
minister (dastūr) of Abū Manṣūr b. ʿAbd-al-Razzāq (d. 350/961), a military commander of Khorasan under the Samanids.
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ABŪ MANṢŪR ṬŪSĪ
D. Pingree
mathematician.
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ABŪ MAʿŠAR
D. Pingree
astronomer and astrologer, born in Balḵ on 20 Ṣafar 171/10 August 787.
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ABŪ MOSLEM EṢFAHĀNĪ
Wilferd Madelung
secretary, official, man of letters, and Muʿtazilite Koran commentator, b. 254/868, probably in Isfahan.
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ABŪ MOSLEM ḴORĀSĀNĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
prominent leader in the ʿAbbasid cause.
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ABŪ MOṬĪʿ AL-BALḴĪ
L. A. Giffen
faqīh, judge, and traditionist, disciple of Abū Ḥanīfa, died 183/799 in Balḵ.
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ABŪ MŪSĀ AŠʿARĪ
G. R. Hawting
a Companion of the Prophet and important participant in the troubles which occupied the caliphate of ʿAlī.
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ABU MUSĀ i - ii
E. Ehlers
island in the Persian Gulf.
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ABU MUSĀ iii
Guive Mirfendereski
(Bu Musā), a small island in the eastern Persian Gulf (25°52′ N, 55°2′ E).
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ABŪ MŪSĀ MORDĀR
J. van Ess
theologian and ascetic, early representative of the Baghdad branch of the Moʿtazela (d. 226/840-41).
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ABŪ NAṢR AḤMAD
C. E. Bosworth
Samanid amir in Transoxania and Khorasan (295-301/907-14).