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• ABU’L-FAŻL SĀVAJĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  (1248-1312/1832-95), a scholar, calligrapher, poet, and physician active in Qajar court circles.

• ABU’L-FAŻL ŠĪRĀZĪ

  L. A. Giffen

  vizier in the time of the Buyids, patron of the Shiʿi Arab poet Ebn al-Ḥaǰǰāǰ, born in Shiraz in 303/915, died at Kūfa in 362/973.

• ABU’L-FAŻL TĀJ-AL-DĪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  amir of the line of later Saffarids, sometimes called the third dynasty of Saffarids and, by a historian like Jūzǰānī, the “Maleks of Nīmrūz and Seǰestān.”

• ABU’L-FOTŪḤ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  J. A. Wakin

  known also by his laqab Montaǰab-al-dīn (or in some sources Montaḵab-al-dīn), a well-known Shafeʿite scholar and traditionist.

• ABU’L-FOTŪḤ RĀZĪ

  M. J. McDermott

  Shiʿite commentator on the Koran who lived in the first half of the 6th/12th century.

• ABU’L-ḠĀZĪ BAHĀDOR KHAN

  B. Spuler

  khan of Ḵīva (r. 1054-74/1644 to 1663-64) and Čaḡatāy historian.

• ABU’L-ḤASAN AHWĀZĪ

  D. Pingree

  astronomer, fl. after ca. 215/830. 

• ABU’L-ḤASAN EṢFAHĀNĪ

  H. Algar

  (1284-1365/1867-1946), an Iranian moǰtahed who was a leading religious authority in the Shiʿite world for more than thirty years.

• ABU’L-ḤASAN ESFARĀʾĪNĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  first vizier for the Ghaznavid sultan Maḥmūd (r. 388-421/998-1030). 

• ABU’L-ḤASAN GOLESTĀNA

  R. D. McChesney

  vizier of Kermānšāhān and chronicler of post-Afsharid Iran.