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• ABŪ ŠAKŪR BALḴĪ

  G. Lazard

  poet of the Samanid period.

• ABŪ SALAMA ḴALLĀL

  R. W. Bulliet

  head of the Hashemite propaganda organization (daʿwa) that sparkled the ʿAbbasid revolution and first vizier of the new dynasty. 

• ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR

  C. E. Bosworth

  Samanid prince, the cousin of the amir Aḥmad b. Esmāʿīl (295-301/907-14) and uncle of his successor Naṣr b. Aḥmad (301-31/914-43).

• ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR (I) NŪḤ

  C. E. Bosworth

  (350-66/961-76), Samanid ruler in Transoxania and Khorasan and successor of his brother ʿAbd-al-Malek after the latter’s death in Šawwāl, 350/November, 961.

• ABŪ SALĪK GORGĀNĪ

  M. N. Osmanov

  Persian poet, contemporary of ʿAmr b. Layṯ the Saffarid (265-88/879-901). 

• ABŪ ŠOʿAYB HERAVĪ

  J. W. Clinton

  or BŪ ŠOʿAYB as he is more commonly known, one of the many poets of the Samanid court which has survived virtually in name only.

• ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  H. Halm

  (434-500/1042-43 to 1106, Shafeʿite jurist. 

• ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ FANĀ ḴOSROW

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿAŻOD-AL-DAWLA.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER

  O. Watson

  designation of a family of leading potters from Kāšān, known through four generations (602-734/1205-1333). 

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• ABŪ ṬĀHER B. MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAKĀN-E LORESTĀN.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER ḴĀTŪNĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  officer, famous poet, and author in the reign of the Saljuq Sultan Moḥammad b. Malekšāh (498-511/1105-18).

• ABŪ TAHER ḴOSRAVĀNĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a poet of the Samanid period.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER SAMARQANDĪ

  M. Zand

  author of a book named Ṯamarīya (first half of the 13th/19th century).

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ

  Hameed ud-Din

  Mughal scholar chiefly famous for his alleged discovery of Malfūẓāt-e Tīmūrī or Wāqeʿāt-e Tīmūrī, an autobiographical account of Tīmūr from the 7th to the 74th year of his life.

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB KALĪM

  Cross-Reference

  (b. ca. 1581-85; d. 1651), Persian poet and one of the leading exponents of the “Indian style” (sabk-e hendi). See KALĪM KĀŠĀNI.

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB KHAN LANDANĪ

  M. Baqir

  Official and author in British India (18th-19th century).

• ABU ṬĀLEB TABRIZI

  ʿA. Kārang

  Poet and physician whose pen name was Ṭāleb (d. 1015/1606-07).

• ABŪ TORĀB NAḴŠABĪ

  B. Radtke

  noted 3rd/9th century ascetic.

• ABŪ TORĀB WALĪ

  S. Moinul Haq

  noble in the service of Akbar and author of Tārīḵ-e Goǰrāt, a short history of that province from the reign of Bahādor Shah (932-43/1526-36), with an account of his wars against Homāyūn, through Akbar’s conquest and up to 992/1584.

• ABU YAʿQUB HAMADĀNI

  H. Algar

  Important figure in the history of Iranian and Central Asian Sufism, largely neglected by both Iranian and Western scholarship (440-535/1048-49 to 1140).