Table of Contents

• ABU’L-ḤASAN ŠAMSĀBĀDĪ

  H. Algar

  (1326-96/1908-76), an influential moǰtahed of Isfahan who was murdered on 7 April 1976 under mysterious circumstances.

• ABU’L-ḤASAN TAFREŠĪ

  L. Richter-Bernburg

  (1261-1323/1845 to 1905-06), medical instructor, author, and public health official in late Qajar Persia.

• ABU’L-ḤASAN ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

  H. Algar

  (?-1350/1932), religious scholar and father of the celebrated Āyatallāh Maḥmūd Ṭālaqānī.

• ABU’L-HAYJĀ NAJMĪ

  Ḏ. Ṣafā

  Persian poet of the 5th-6th/11th-12th centuries.

• ABU’L-HAYṮAM GORGĀNĪ

  H. Corbin

  Ismaʿili philosopher, for a long time one of the great unknown figures in the history of Irano-Islamic philosophy.

• ABU’L-HOḎAYL AL-ʿALLĀF

  J. van Ess

  (ca. 135-227/752-841?), early Muʿtazilite theologian of universal reputation.

• ABU’L-ḤOSAYN BAṢRĪ

  D. Gimaret

  Muʿtazilite theologian and lawyer, d. 436/1044. 

• ABU’L-ḤOSAYN KĀTEB

  C. E. Bosworth

  official of the Buyids and writer in Arabic of the 4th/10th century. 

• ABU’L-JĀRŪD HAMDĀNĪ

  W. Madelung

  Kufan Shiʿite scholar and leader of the early Zaydite group named after him, the Jārūdīya.

• ABU’L-ḴAṬṬĀB ASADĪ

  A. Sachedina

  Founder of the extremist Shiʿite sect Ḵaṭṭābīya.