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ABU’L-HOḎAYL AL-ʿALLĀF
J. van Ess
(ca. 135-227/752-841?), early Muʿtazilite theologian of universal reputation.
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ABU’L-ḤOSAYN BAṢRĪ
D. Gimaret
Muʿtazilite theologian and lawyer, d. 436/1044.
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ABU’L-ḤOSAYN KĀTEB
C. E. Bosworth
official of the Buyids and writer in Arabic of the 4th/10th century.
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ABU’L-JĀRŪD HAMDĀNĪ
W. Madelung
Kufan Shiʿite scholar and leader of the early Zaydite group named after him, the Jārūdīya.
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ABU’L-ḴAṬṬĀB ASADĪ
A. Sachedina
Founder of the extremist Shiʿite sect Ḵaṭṭābīya.
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ABU’L-ḴAYR B. AL-ḴAMMĀR
W. Madelung
Nestorian Christian physician, philosopher, theologian, and translator, b. Rabīʿ I, 331/November, 942 in Baghdad.
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ABU’L-ḴAYR KHAN
Y. Bregel
A descendant of Šïban (the younger son of Joči) and ruler of the Uzbek nomadic state in Dašt-e Qïpčaq in the 15th century.
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ABU'L-KHAYRIDS
Yuri Bregel
name used for the dynasty that ruled the khanate of Bukhara in 906-1007/1500-99. Until recently, this dynasty was incorrectly called in Western literature “Shaybanids” (or “Shibanids”).
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ABU’L-LAYṮ SAMARQANDĪ
J. van Ess
productive Hanafite jurist, author of a Koran commentary and of popular paraenetical works.
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ABU’L-MAʿĀLĪ
J. van Ess
Author of Bayān al-adyān, the oldest work on religions and sects written in Persian (11th-12th centuries).