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• ABŪZAYDĀBĀDĪ

  E. Yarshater

  (Būzābādī for short), a variety of the local dialects of Kāšān province, spoken in the village of Abūzaydābād and its farms, and belonging to the Central or Median group of Iranian dialects.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS ʿANBARĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿANBARĪ.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MARVAZĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  Sufi, jurist, and traditionist, one of the first poets to write in New Persian. 

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ʿAṬĀʾ

  C. E. Bosworth

  secretary and poet of the Ghaznavid period, d. 491/1098.

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ GANJAVĪ

  Ż. Sajjādi

  6th/12th century poet at the court of Ḵāqān Faḵr-al-dīn Manūčehr Šervānšāh. 

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ HAMADĀNĪ

  L. A. Giffen

  saintly specialist in the science of Koran readings (qerāʾāt) and Tradition, born in Hamadān in 488/1090 and died in 569/1173.

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ŠOŠTARĪ

  M. Zand

  early Persian poet and prosodist (the earliest known from the Šoštar area).

• ABU’L-ʿAMAYṮAL

  I. Abbas

  Tahirid court poet.

• ABU’L-ʿANBAS ṢAYMARĪ

  D. Pingree

  astrologer and author, born at Kūfa, 213/828; died 275/889. 

• ABU’L-BAQĀʾ

  H. Algar

  author of Jāmeʿ al-maqāmāt on the life of the Naqšbandī saint, Mawlānā Ḵᵛāǰagī Kāsānī (d. 949/1542), written in 1028/1618.