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ABŪ SAHL ZŪZANĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
courtier and official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd (388-421/998-1030) and Masʿūd (421-32/1031-41), d. ca. 440-50/1050-59.
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ABŪ SAʿĪD ABI’L-ḴAYR
G. Böwering
famous Iranian mystic, born 1 Moḥarram 357/7 December 967 at Mēhana, a small town in Khorasan, about fifty miles west of Saraḵs, and died there 4 Šaʿbān 440/12 January 1049.
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ABŪ SAʿĪD BAHĀDOR KHAN
P. Jackson
ninth Il-khan of Iran, the son and successor of Öljeitü (Ūlǰāytū).
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ABŪ SAʿĪD JANNĀBĪ
W. Madelung
founder of the Qarmaṭī state in Baḥrain (b. between 230/845, and 240/855, d. 300/913 or 301/913-14).
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ABŪ SAʿĪD KHAN
Y. Bregel
cousin of Šaybānī Khan and great-grandson of Uluḡ Beg in the female line, khan of the Uzbeks of Transoxania (936-40/1530-33).
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ABŪ ŠAKŪR BALḴĪ
G. Lazard
poet of the Samanid period.
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ABŪ SALAMA ḴALLĀL
R. W. Bulliet
head of the Hashemite propaganda organization (daʿwa) that sparkled the ʿAbbasid revolution and first vizier of the new dynasty.
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ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR
C. E. Bosworth
Samanid prince, the cousin of the amir Aḥmad b. Esmāʿīl (295-301/907-14) and uncle of his successor Naṣr b. Aḥmad (301-31/914-43).
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ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR (I) NŪḤ
C. E. Bosworth
(350-66/961-76), Samanid ruler in Transoxania and Khorasan and successor of his brother ʿAbd-al-Malek after the latter’s death in Šawwāl, 350/November, 961.
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ABŪ SALĪK GORGĀNĪ
M. N. Osmanov
Persian poet, contemporary of ʿAmr b. Layṯ the Saffarid (265-88/879-901).