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  • ABŪ BAKR KALĀBĀḎĪ

    W. Madelung

    author of the well-known compendium of Sufism al-Taʿarrof le-maḏhab ahl al-taṣawwof.

  • ABŪ BAKR MARVAZĪ

    A. A. Ivanov

    7th/13th century metalworker.

  • ABŪ BAKR NAYSĀBŪRĪ

    M. J. McDermott

    a jurist loosely belonging to the Shafeʿite school.

  • ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ

    Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

     fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs; himself a poet, he patronized poetry generously.

  • ABŪ BAKR SAMARQANDĪ

    I. Abbas

    (d. 268/881), a Hanafite jurist about whose life the available sources furnish no information.

  • ABŪ BAKR SARAḴSĪ

    J. W. Clinton

    a follower (but apparently not a contemporary) of Shaikh Abū Saʿīd b. Abi’l-Ḵayr (d. 440/1049).

  • ABŪ BAKR ṬŪSĪ ḤAYDARĪ

    B. Lawrence

    7th/13th century Indo-Muslim saint.

  • ABŪ ḎARR BŪZJĀNĪ

    M. N. Osmanov

    a Persian poet and Sufi shaikh contemporary with Sebüktigin (d. 387/997).

  • ABŪ ḎARR HERAVĪ

    J. A. Wakin

    a traditionist known primarily for his role in the transmission of Boḵārī’s Jāmeʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ.

  • ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ

    R. W. Bulliet

    Arab traveler, poet, and frequenter of the Buyid court (ca. mid-4th/10th century).