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• ABU’L-BARAKĀT BAḠDĀDĪ

  W. Madelung

  5th-6th/11th-12th century physician and philosopher of Jewish origin, born in Balad, a town on the Tigris above Mosul.

• ABU’L-BARAKĀT LĀHŪRĪ

  M. U. Memon

  Indo-Persian poet.

• ABU’L-FARAJ BANNĀʾ

  O. Watson

  a potter known through a single signed piece reputedly found in Sāva.

• ABU’L-FARAJ ʿEBRĪ

  Cross-Reference

  (b. Malaṭīa, 1225; d. Marāḡa, 1286), Syriac historian and polymath, also known as Bar Hebraeus. See EBN AL-ʿEBRĪ, ABU’L-FARAJ.

• ABU’L-FARAJ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  K. Abū Deeb

  Author of the Ketāb al-aḡānī.

• ABU’L-FARAJ RŪNĪ

  M. Siddiqi

  an early Persian poet. Nothing is known about his birth and early life, except that he was born in Rūna, the exact location of which is uncertain.

• ABU’L-FARAJ SEJZĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  4th/10th century poet of Sīstān, author of several lost works on the art of poetry.

• ABU’L-FATḤ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  D. Pingree

  An early 6th/12th century astronomer.

• ABU’L-FATḤ ḤOSAYNĪ

  E. Glassen

  Shiʿite jurist, d. 976/1568-69.

• ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN BAḴTĪĀRĪ

  J. R. Perry

  a chieftain of the Haft Lang branch of the Baḵtīārī and paramount chief (īlḵānī) of the tribe.

• ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN JAVĀNŠĪR

  H. Busse

  son of the ruler of Qarābāḡ, Ebrāhīm Ḵalīl Khan Javānšīr, and through his sister brother-in-law of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah. 

• ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN ZAND

  H. Busse

  eldest son of Karīm Khan (Wakīl) of the Īnāq lineage of the Zand, b. 1169/1755-56.

• ABU’L-FATḤ MĪRZĀ

  H. Algar

  (d. 1330/1912), Qajar prince who held a number of governorships.

• ABU’L-FATḤ YŪSOF

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid vizier of the early 6th/12th century.

• ABU’L-FAYŻ KAMĀL-AL-DĪN SERHENDĪ

  J. G. J. ter Harr

  author of Rawżat al-qayyūmīya, a still unpublished taḏkera of the Naqšbandīya-Moǰaddedīya order in India. 

• ABU’L-FAŻL ABŪ MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. VĀSEʿ.

• ABU’L-FAŻL ʿALLĀMĪ

  R. M. Eaton

  historian, officer, chief secretary, and confidant of the Mughal emperor Akbar I.

• ABU’L-FAŻL GOLPĀYEGĀNĪ

  M. Momen

  prominent Bahaʾi scholar and apologist.

• ABU’L-FAŻL ḴOTTALĪ

  H. Algar

  (d. 453/1061?), preceptor of Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Hoǰvīrī (d. 465/1073), the author of the celebrated Persian treatise on Sufism, Kašf al-maḥǰūb.

• ABU’L-FAŻL MĪKĀL

  S. ʿA. Anwār

  author and poet, d. 436/1045.