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• ABDAGASES

  C. J. Brunner

  “great king” of the Pahlava dynasty in Drangiana, Arachosia, Gandhāra, and perhaps loosely over the Indus region.

• ʿABDAK AL-ṢŪFĪ

  B. Reinert

  an eccentric religious devotee of Kūfa, who also lived for periods at Baghdad, late 2nd/8th to early 3rd/9th centuries.

• ABDĀL

  J. Chabbi

  An Arabic technical term designating one of the categories of awlīāʾ (“friends of God,” Muslim saints).

• ABDĀL BEG

  E. Glassen

  one of the seven trusted Qezelbāš amirs (ahl-e eḵteṣāṣ) who, after the death of Solṭān ʿAlī (898/1493), accompanied the latter’s young brother and designated master of the Safavid order, Esmāʿīl, to Lāhīǰān, where he found refuge from the persecution of the Āq Qoyonlū rulers.

• ABDĀL ČEŠTĪ

  M. Imam

  described by Jāmī as the foremost among the shaikhs of Češt. He was born in 260/874.

• ABDĀL, QARA ŠEMSĪ

  T. Yazici

  (1244-1303/1828-86), a Turkish poet who also wrote poetry in Persian.

• ABDĀLĪ

  C. M. Kieffer

  ancient name of a large tribe, or more particularly of a group of Afghan tribes, better known by the name of Dorrānī since the reign of Aḥmad Šāh Dorrānī (1747-72). 

• ʿABDALLĀH

  L. Mackie

  Name appearing on four diverse, high-quality silks of the first half of the 17th century.

• ʿABDALLĀH (2)

  I. H. Siddiqi

  Author of Tārīḵ-e Dāʾūdī, fl. early 17th century.

• ʿABDALLĀH ANṢĀRĪ

  S. de Laugier de Beaureceuil

  Outstanding commentator of the Koran, traditionist, polemicist, and spiritual master (5th/11th century).