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• ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN JAVĀNŠĪR

  H. Busse

  son of the ruler of Qarābāḡ, Ebrāhīm Ḵalīl Khan Javānšīr, and through his sister brother-in-law of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah. 

• ABU’L-FATḤ KHAN ZAND

  H. Busse

  eldest son of Karīm Khan (Wakīl) of the Īnāq lineage of the Zand, b. 1169/1755-56.

• ABU’L-FATḤ MĪRZĀ

  H. Algar

  (d. 1330/1912), Qajar prince who held a number of governorships.

• ABU’L-FATḤ YŪSOF

  C. E. Bosworth

  Ghaznavid vizier of the early 6th/12th century.

• ABU’L-FAYŻ KAMĀL-AL-DĪN SERHENDĪ

  J. G. J. ter Harr

  author of Rawżat al-qayyūmīya, a still unpublished taḏkera of the Naqšbandīya-Moǰaddedīya order in India. 

• ABU’L-FAŻL ABŪ MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. VĀSEʿ.

• ABU’L-FAŻL ʿALLĀMĪ

  R. M. Eaton

  historian, officer, chief secretary, and confidant of the Mughal emperor Akbar I.

• ABU’L-FAŻL GOLPĀYEGĀNĪ

  M. Momen

  prominent Bahaʾi scholar and apologist.

• ABU’L-FAŻL ḴOTTALĪ

  H. Algar

  (d. 453/1061?), preceptor of Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Hoǰvīrī (d. 465/1073), the author of the celebrated Persian treatise on Sufism, Kašf al-maḥǰūb.

• ABU’L-FAŻL MĪKĀL

  S. ʿA. Anwār

  author and poet, d. 436/1045.