Table of Contents

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ABŪ SAʿĪD BAHĀDOR KHAN

    P. Jackson

    ninth Il-khan of Iran, the son and successor of Öljeitü (Ūlǰāytū).

  • 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). 

  • 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).  

  • ABŪ ŠAKŪR BALḴĪ

    G. Lazard

    poet of the Samanid period.

  • 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. 

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • ABŪ SALĪK GORGĀNĪ

    M. N. Osmanov

    Persian poet, contemporary of ʿAmr b. Layṯ the Saffarid (265-88/879-901).