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• ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪ BAḤR-AL-ʿOLŪM

  F. Robinson

  A leading Indian theologian of the Ḥanafī school (18th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪ BĪRJANDĪ

  D. Pingree

  (or BARJANDĪ) Islamic astronomer, said to have died in 934/1527-28.

• ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪM NAṢRALLĀḤ KHAN

  Hameed ud-Din

  “QAMAR,” government official, historian, biographer, translator, and grammarian in British India (19th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿAẒĪM AL-ḤASANĪ

  W. Madelung

  Shiʿite ascetic and transmitter buried in the main sanctuary of Ray (9th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB

  D. Duda

  Painter of the Safavid period (16th century).

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• ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. NAḎR MOḤAMMAD

  M. H. Siddiqi

  Toghay-Timurid (Janid) dynast of the Uzbeks in Bukhara (r. 1647-80).

• ʿABD-al-ʿAZĪZ ḤEKĪMBĀŠĪ

  T. Yazici

  Ottoman physician and translator (d. 1782-83).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ MOḤADDEṮ DEHLAVĪ

  Azduddin Khan

  Sunni theologian and mystic (1746-1824).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ QARA ČELEBIZĀDA

  T. Yazici

  Ottoman historian and translator (1591-1658).

• ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ SOLṬĀN

  Yu. Bregel

  Shaibanid ruler of Bokhara (d. 1550).

• ʿABD-AL-BAHĀʾ

  A. Bausani, D. MacEoin

  epithet assumed by ʿAbbās Effendi, the eldest son of Bahāʾallāh, founder of the Bahaʾi movement. The epithet means “servant of the glory of God” or “servant of Bahāʾallāh.”

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ LAʿLĪZĀDA

  T. Yazici

  (d. 1746 A.D.), Ottoman scholar, son of Shaikh Laʿlī Meḥmed, the grandson of Sarı ʿAbdallāh, a commentator on the Maṯnavī. 

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ NAHĀVANDĪ

  Hameed ud-Din

  Mughal noble and biographer.

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ TABRĪZĪ

  ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Kārang

  religious scholar and notable of Azerbaijan (d. 1039/1629-30).

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ YAZDĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Safavid official and poet skilled in calligraphy, killed at the battle of Čālderān in Raǰab 920/August 1514.

• ʿABD-AL-BARĪ

  F. Robinson

  early 20th century Indian scholar and pīr of the Ferangī Maḥal family.

• ʿABD-AL-FATTĀḤ GARMRŪDĪ

  H. Algar

  (ca. 1200-64/1786-1848), a scribe and minor author of the mid-Qajar period.

• ʿABD-AL-FATTĀH ḤOSAYNĪ

  M. B. Badakhshani

  Indian scholar of Persian and Arabic.

• ʿABD-AL-ḠANĪ KHAN

  M. Baqir

  Indian literary scholar and a poet in Persian and Urdu (d. 1916).

• ʿABD-AL-HĀDĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ

  H. Algar

  (1305-82/1888-1962), a Shiʿite scholar of Naǰaf, highly regarded for his learning and piety.