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ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ HAMADĀNĪ
L. A. Giffen
saintly specialist in the science of Koran readings (qerāʾāt) and Tradition, born in Hamadān in 488/1090 and died in 569/1173.
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ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ŠOŠTARĪ
M. Zand
early Persian poet and prosodist (the earliest known from the Šoštar area).
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ABU’L-ʿAMAYṮAL
I. Abbas
Tahirid court poet.
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ABU’L-ʿANBAS ṢAYMARĪ
D. Pingree
astrologer and author, born at Kūfa, 213/828; died 275/889.
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ABU’L-BAQĀʾ
H. Algar
author of Jāmeʿ al-maqāmāt on the life of the Naqšbandī saint, Mawlānā Ḵᵛāǰagī Kāsānī (d. 949/1542), written in 1028/1618.
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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.
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ABU’L-BARAKĀT LĀHŪRĪ
M. U. Memon
Indo-Persian poet.
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ABU’L-FARAJ BANNĀʾ
O. Watson
a potter known through a single signed piece reputedly found in Sāva.
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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.
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ABU’L-FARAJ EṢFAHĀNĪ
K. Abū Deeb
Author of the Ketāb al-aḡānī.
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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.
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ABU’L-FARAJ SEJZĪ
M. Dabīrsīāqī
4th/10th century poet of Sīstān, author of several lost works on the art of poetry.
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ABU’L-FATḤ EṢFAHĀNĪ
D. Pingree
An early 6th/12th century astronomer.
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ABU’L-FATḤ ḤOSAYNĪ
E. Glassen
Shiʿite jurist, d. 976/1568-69.
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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.
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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.
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ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN ZAND
H. Busse
eldest son of Karīm Khan (Wakīl) of the Īnāq lineage of the Zand, b. 1169/1755-56.
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ABU’L-FATḤ MĪRZĀ
H. Algar
(d. 1330/1912), Qajar prince who held a number of governorships.
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ABU’L-FATḤ YŪSOF
C. E. Bosworth
Ghaznavid vizier of the early 6th/12th century.
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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.