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ʿABD-AL-JALĪL BELGRĀMĪ
M. Siddiqi
major 17th/18th century Indo-Muslim litterateur.
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ʿABD-AL-JALĪL RĀZĪ
W. Madelung
Emāmī Shiʿite scholar, preacher, and author, b. probably early in the 6th/12th century.
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ʿABD-AL-ḴĀLEQ ḠOJDOVĀNĪ
K. A. Nizami
teacher and distinguished Naqšbandī saint (d. 617/1220), who consolidated and transmitted the thought of the Naqšbandī order.
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ʿABD-AL-ḴĀN
P. Oberling
an Arab tribe of Ḵūzestān, it was originally affiliated with the Bani Lām tribal confederacy and resided in the region of ʿAmāra, in present-day Iraq.
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ʿALAVĪ
N. H. Zaidi
early 19th century Indo-Persian historian (d. ca. 1851).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM BOḴĀRĪ
M. Zand
Bukharan traveler and memorialist (d. after 1830-31).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM GAZĪ
H. Algar
a respected religious leader of Isfahan (1856-1921).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ
S. Maqbul Ahmad
noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns (d. 1784).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ
P. P. Soucek
specimens of calligraphy now in Leningrad and Istanbul are signed by him as written during his tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years, indicating that he was a skilled calligrapher at an early age. Unfortunately, none of these pages bear dates which would make it possible to determine the year of his birth.
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ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF BHETĀʾĪ
M. Baqir
Sufi poet of Sind (1689-1752).
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ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF MĪRZĀ
C. P. Haase
Timurid ruler in Samarqand from Ramażān, 853/October, 1449 to 26 Rabīʿ I 854/8 May 1450.
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ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ
P. P. Soucek
revered as the calligrapher who gave šekasta script its definitive form.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ
C. E. Bosworth
the penultimate ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Khorasan and Transoxania, r. 389/999.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ B. NAṢR
C. E. Bosworth
ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Transoxania and Khorasan, 343-350/954-61.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK ŠĪRĀZĪ
D. Pingree
astronomer, fl. ca. 600/1203-04; there is a manuscript dated in that year of his revision of Helāl b. Abū Helāl and Ṯābet b. Qorra’s translation of the Conica of Appolonius.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEKĪ
P. Oberling
a Lek tribe of Māzandarān.
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ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN B. ʿABDALLĀH
R. D. McChesney
generally reckoned as the eleventh khan of the Shaibanid (Abu’l-Ḵayrī) dynasty of Māvarāʾ al-Nahr and Balḵ.
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ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM ʿĀMELĪ
D. Pingree
10th/16th century astronomer.
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ʿABD-AL-NABĪ
K. A. Nizami
Mughal traditionist, for a time much esteemed by the emperor Akbar (16th century).
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ʿABD-AL-NABĪ AḤMADNAGARĪ
M. Baqir
12th/18th century Gujerati scholar.
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ʿABD-AL-NABĪ QAZVĪNĪ
M. Baqir
storyteller and poet in Mughal India (17th-century).
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER BALḴĪ
T. Yazici
(1839-1923), an Ottoman Sufi and poet who came originally from Balḵ.
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER ḤOSAYNĪ
M. Baqir
16th-century poet of Sind.
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER JĪLĀNĪ
B. Lawrence
noted Hanbalite preacher, Sufi shaikh and the eponymous founder of the Qāderī order.
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN
M. Aslam
Author of Avīmāq-e Moḡol (publ. 1900), better known as Mirzā Moḥammad Āḡā Jān.
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾEŠĪ
M. Baqir
Late Mughal biographer (18th-19th century).
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER RŪYĀNĪ
D. Pingree
astronomer (16th century).
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ʿABD-AL-QĀDER ŠĪRĀZĪ
E. Baer
Metalworker of late 13th century, whose one attested signed work is a silver and gold-inlaid brass bowl (Galleria Estense, Modena, no. 8082).
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ʿABD-AL-QĀHER B. ṬĀHER
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ʿABD-AL-QĀHER JORJĀNĪ
K. Abu Deeb
celebrated grammarian, rhetorician, and literary theorist, born in Gorgān (date unknown), where he died in 471/1078.
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ʿABD-AL-QAYS
P. Oberling
an eastern Arabian tribe.
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ʿABD-AL-QODDŪS B. SOLṬĀN MOḤAMMAD
R. D. McChesney
called ŠAGASĪ, prominent Afghan military and political figure of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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ʿABD-AL-QODDŪS GANGŌHĪ
B. B. Lawrence
Indo-Muslim saint and litterateur (d. 1537).
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ʿABD-AL-RĀFEʿ HERAVĪ
Żīā-al-dīn Sajjādī
poet, grammarian, and physician, first attached to the court of Ḵosrow Malek (555-82/1160-76), the last Ghaznavid sultan.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ʿAJAMĪ
D. Pingree
astronomer (d. 1026/1617).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ʿANBARĪN-QALAM
M. A. Chaghatai
calligrapher of India (fl. late 10th-11th centuries).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM DEHLAVĪ
Fazlur Rahman
late Mughal scholar (d. 1726).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ḴĀN ḴĀNĀN
N. H. Zaidi
Mughal general and statesman (d. 1627).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ḴAYYĀṬ
W. Madelung
Muʿtazilite theologian of Baghdad (9th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤĪM ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ
P. P. Soucek
calligrapher and poet active in western Iran during the second half of the 9th/15th century.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. ʿOMAR ṢŪFĪ
P. Kunitzsch
astronomer, especially well versed in knowledge of the fixed stars (10th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. SAMORA
M. G. Morony
Arab general who campaigned in Sīstān (d. 50/670).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. SOYŪNJ
R. D. MacChesney
an Uzbek amir in Balḵ (17th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN ČEŠTĪ
Hameed ud-Din
Mughal saint and biographer (17th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KHAN
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Emir or ruler of Afghanistan, and member of the Bārakzay tribe of the Dorrāni tribal confederation, who unified the kingdom after the second Anglo-Afghan war (r. 1297-1319/1880-1901). See AFGHANISTAN x. Political History, BĀRAKZI, and DORRĀNI.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KᵛĀRAZMĪ
P. P. Soucek
calligrapher specializing in nastaʿlīq, active during the middle decades of the 9th/15th century.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SAMARQANDĪ
Y. Bregel
late 19th century secretary (mīrzā). A Tajik, he was a native of Samarqand.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SARAḴSĪ
I. Abbas
a Hanafite jurist (d. 1047).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN ŠAYZARĪ
H. H. Biesterfeldt
Syrian author and contemporary of Saladin (d. 589/1193).
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ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD DAYLAMĪ
P. P. Soucek
calligrapher and poet who served the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān (1037-58/1628-58).