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• ABŪ ṬĀLEB KHAN LANDANĪ

  M. Baqir

  Official and author in British India (18th-19th century).

• ABU ṬĀLEB TABRIZI

  ʿA. Kārang

  Poet and physician whose pen name was Ṭāleb (d. 1015/1606-07).

• ABŪ TORĀB NAḴŠABĪ

  B. Radtke

  noted 3rd/9th century ascetic.

• ABŪ TORĀB WALĪ

  S. Moinul Haq

  noble in the service of Akbar and author of Tārīḵ-e Goǰrāt, a short history of that province from the reign of Bahādor Shah (932-43/1526-36), with an account of his wars against Homāyūn, through Akbar’s conquest and up to 992/1584.

• ABU YAʿQUB HAMADĀNI

  H. Algar

  Important figure in the history of Iranian and Central Asian Sufism, largely neglected by both Iranian and Western scholarship (440-535/1048-49 to 1140).

• ABŪ YAʿQŪB JORJĀNĪ

  J. van Ess

  disciple of Ebn Karrām (d. 255/869).  

• ABŪ YAʿQŪB SEJESTĀNĪ

  P. E. Walker

  one of the most important of the early Ismaʿili dāʿīs.

• ABU YAZĪD BESṬĀMI

  Cross-Reference

  See BESṬĀMĪ, BĀYAZĪD.

• ABŪ YŪSOF QAZVINI

  W. Madelung

  Muʿtazilite scholar and author of an immense Koran commentary, born Šaʿbān, 393/June, 1003 (according to another report 391) in Qazvīn.

• ABŪ ZAYD B. MOḤAMMAD KĀŠĀNĪ

  O. Watson

  perhaps the single most important luster potter of Kāšān known to us. More signed and dated works (from 587/1191 to 616/1219) are known by him than by any other potter, and his signature occurs on a greater variety of wares, including both tiles and vessels.