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• 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 MESKAVAYH

  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 MESKAVAYH, ABU ʿALI AḤMAD.

• ABŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR

  Kh. A. Nizami

  (also known as SHAH BŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR), Indian poet and saint, d. 725/1324. His mausoleum at Panipat remains a popular center for pilgrimage.

• ABŪ ʿAMR AL-MĀZOLĪ

  J. van Ess

  Karrāmī theologian, fl. mid-4th/mid-10th century.

• ABŪ ʿAṬĀ

  G. Tsuge

  one of the twelve modes in the dastgāh system of classical Iranian music; more precisely, it should be called āvāz-e Abū ʿAṭā or naḡma-ye Abū ʿAṭā.

• ABŪ ʿAWĀNA

  J. A. Wakin

  a Shafeʿite legal scholar and traditionist.

• ABŪ ʿAWN

  R. W. Bulliet

  a distinguished ʿAbbasid general, twice governor of Egypt and once of Khorasan.