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• 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.

• ABU’L-ḴAYR B. AL-ḴAMMĀR

  W. Madelung

  Nestorian Christian physician, philosopher, theologian, and translator, b. Rabīʿ I, 331/November, 942 in Baghdad.

• 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.

• 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”).

• ABU’L-LAYṮ SAMARQANDĪ

  J. van Ess

  productive Hanafite jurist, author of a Koran commentary and of popular paraenetical works.

• ABU’L-MAʿĀLĪ

  J. van Ess

  Author of Bayān al-adyān, the oldest work on religions and sects written in Persian (11th-12th centuries).