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• ABHARĪ, AMĪN-AL-DĪN

  D. Pingree

   mathematician, said to have died in 1332-33.

• ABHARĪ, AṮĪR-AL-DĪN

  G. C. Anawati

  (d. 1264), logician, mathematician, and astronomer.

• ABHARĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier of the last two Great Saljuq sultans in western Persia.

• ABHARĪ, MAḴDŪM

  Hameed ud-Din

  16th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ

  E. Ehlers

  Persian term for those agricultural lands which are irrigated.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  8th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ SAʿĪD

  M. M. Mazzaoui

  11th-century vizier and man of letters.

• ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  Imami faqīh (jurist) of the 13th century.

• ABIRĀDŪŠ

  M. Dandamayev

  a village in Elam.

• ABIRATTA(Š)

  M. Mayrhofer

  ancient Near Eastern proper name said to be of (Indo-)Aryan origin, by comparison with Vedic ratha, Avestan raθa “chariot.” This analysis, however, remains uncertain.