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• ABŪ DOLAF ʿEJLĪ

  F. M. Donner

  Arab military chieftain, author, poet, governor, and boon companion for several ʿAbbasid caliphs, and most important member of the ʿEǰlī dynasty of western Iran, flourished in the early 3rd/9th century.

• ABŪ ʿEKREMA

  D. M. Dunlop

  a freedman of Banū Ḥamdān, regarded as the first ʿAbbasid propagandist in Khorasan.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ AL-ŠĪRĀZĪ

  W. Madelung

  Shafeʿite jurist, b. 393/1003 in Fīrūzābād in Fār.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ AṬʿEMA

  Cross-Reference

  (d. 1420s) satirical poet who used Persian culinary vocabulary and imagery and kitchen terminology to create a novel style of poetry. See BOSḤĀQ AṬʿEMA.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM

  C. E. Bosworth

  governor of Ḡazna in eastern Afghanistan on behalf of the Samanids (352/963-355/966).

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ ĪNJŪ

  J. W. Limbert

  (721-58/1321-59), ruler of Fārs, ʿErāq ʿAǰam (Isfahan), and parts of southern Iran, 743-55/1343-54.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ KĀZARŪNĪ

  B. Lawrence

  Sufi and eponymous founder of the Kāzarūnīya/Esḥāqīya order.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ NAẒẒĀM

  J. van Ess

  famous adīb and Muʿtazilite theologian.

• ABŪ ESḤĀQ ŠĀMĪ

  Mutiul Imam

  founder and eminent early saint of the Češtī order (3rd-4th/9th-10th century).

• ABŪ ḤAFṢ ḤADDĀD

  J. Chabbi

  an ascetic who was born and lived in Nīšāpūr, d. between 265/874 and 270/879.