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• ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH B. AL-BAYYEʿ

  R. W. Bulliet

  a noted traditionist and local historian, b. 321/933, d. 405/1014.

• ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH YAʿQŪB

  D. Sourdel

  vizier of the ʿAbbasid caliph Mahdī (r. 158-69/775-85).

• ABŪ AḤMAD B. ABĪ BAKR KĀTEB

  C. E. Bosworth

  poet and official of the Samanids, fl. first half of the 4th/10th century.

• ABŪ AḤMAD MONAJJEM

  A. E. Khairallah

  (241/855-56 to 13 Rabīʿ I 300/29 October 912), literary historian, music theorist, poet, and Muʿtazilite, boon companion to caliphs Mowaffaq, Moʿtażed, and Moktafī.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD B. ŠĀḎĀN

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor (ʿamīd) of Balḵ and northern Afghanistan under the Saljuq ruler of Khorasan, Čaḡrī Beg Dāʾūd, and then under his son, Alp Arslan.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ BALḴĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  author of a Šāh-nāma, according to Bīrūnī (Āṯār al-bāqīa, pp. 99f.).

• ABŪ ʿALĪ DĀMḠĀNĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier of the Samanids in the last years of their power.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ DAQQĀQ

  J. Chabbi

  ascetic of Nīšāpūr (d. 405/1015).

• ABŪ ʿALĪ FĀRESĪ

  I. Abbas

  (288-377/900-87), grammarian at the court of the Buyid ʿAżod-al-dawla (d. 366/977).

• ABŪ ʿALĪ MESKAWAYH

  Cross-Reference

  Persian chancery official and treasury clerk of the Buyid period, boon companion, litterateur and accomplished writer in Arabic on a variety of topics, including history, theology, philosophy and medicine (d. 421/1030). See MESKAWAYH, ABU ʿALI AḤMAD.