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ABŪ NAṢR AL-ESMĀʿĪLĪ
W. M. Watt
an alleged teacher of Abū Ḥāmed Ḡazālī (450-505/1058-1111).
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ABŪ NAṢR FĀMĪ
C. E. Bosworth
(472-546/1079-1151), local historian of Herat in the Saljuq period.
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ABŪ NAṢR FĀRĀBĪ
Cross-Reference
See FĀRĀBĪ, ABŪ NAṢR.
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ABŪ NAṢR FĀRSĪ
C. E. Bosworth
Official, soldier and poet of the Ghaznavid empire, flourished in the second half of the 5th/11th century during the reigns of the sultans Ebrāhīm b. Masʿūd I and Masʿūd III b. Ebrāhīm.
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ABŪ NAṢR MANṢŪR
D. Pingree
mathematician and astronomer, born probably in Gīlān about 349/960.
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ABŪ NAṢR MOŠKĀN
H. Moayyad
head of the Ghaznavid chancery under Maḥmūd and Masʿūd from 401/1011-12 till his death in 431/1039-40.
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ABŪ NAṢR MOSTAWFĪ
K. A. Luther
well-known official of the Saljuqs of Iraq.
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ABŪ NAṢR ʿOTBĪ
Cross-Reference
See ʿOTBĪ, ABŪ NAṢR.
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ABŪ NOʿAYM AL-EṢFAHĀNĪ
W. Madelung
famous traditionist and author of the collection of Sufi biographies Ḥelyat al-awlīāʾ.
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ABŪ ʿOBAYDA MAʿMAR
C. E. Bosworth
Arabic philologist and grammarian (probably 110-209/728-824, but the sources have other, slightly different dates).
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ABŪ ʿOṮMĀN RABĪʿA
L. A. Giffen
often called RABĪʿAT-AL-RAʾY, important lawyer of the ancient school of Medina and transmitter of Traditions from Companions of the Prophet, died 136/753.
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ABŪ RAJĀʾ ḠAZNAVĪ
Cross-Reference
See ḠAZNAVĪ, ABŪ RAJĀʾ.
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ABŪ RAŠĪD NĪSĀBŪRĪ
D. W. Madelung
Muʿtazilite scholar. He was probably born not later than 360/970.
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ABŪ SAʿD TOSTARĪ
S. D. Goitein
businessman and quasi-vizier in Fatimid Egypt, d. 439/1047.
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ABŪ SAHL ḤAMDOWĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
Ghaznavid official of the 4th-5th/11th century.
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ABŪ SAHL ḴOJANDĪ
C. E. Bosworth
vizier of the Ghaznavids in the 5th/11th century.
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ABŪ SAHL KŪHĪ
D. Pingree
(also QŪHĪ), mathematician and astronomer.
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ABŪ SAHL LAKŠAN
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd (388-421/998-1030) and Masʿūd (421-32/1031-41).
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ABŪ SAHL NAWBAḴT
D. Pingree
2nd/8th century astrologer and author.
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ABŪ SAHL NAWBAḴTĪ
W. Madelung
a prominent member of the Nawbaḵtī family and noted Imamite leader and scholar.