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  • ʿABD-AL-JALĪL BELGRĀMĪ

    M. Siddiqi

    major 17th/18th century Indo-Muslim litterateur.

  • ʿABD-AL-JALĪL RĀZĪ

    W. Madelung

    Emāmī Shiʿite scholar, preacher, and author, b. probably early in the 6th/12th century.

  • ʿABD-AL-ḴĀLEQ ḠOJDOVĀNĪ

    K. A. Nizami

    teacher and distinguished Naqšbandī saint (d. 617/1220), who consolidated and transmitted the thought of the Naqšbandī order.

  • ʿABD-AL-ḴĀN

    P. Oberling

    an Arab tribe of Ḵūzestān, it was originally affiliated with the Bani Lām tribal confederacy and resided in the region of ʿAmāra, in present-day Iraq.

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ʿALAVĪ

    N. H. Zaidi

    early 19th century Indo-Persian historian (d. ca. 1851).

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM BOḴĀRĪ

    M. Zand

    Bukharan traveler and memorialist (d. after 1830-31).

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM GAZĪ

    H. Algar

    a respected religious leader of Isfahan (1856-1921).

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ

    S. Maqbul Ahmad

    noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns (d. 1784).

  • ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ

    P. P. Soucek

    specimens of calligraphy now in Leningrad and Istanbul are signed by him as written during his tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years, indicating that he was a skilled calligrapher at an early age. Unfortunately, none of these pages bear dates which would make it possible to determine the year of his birth.

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  • ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF BHETĀʾĪ

    M. Baqir

    Sufi poet of Sind (1689-1752).

  • ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF MĪRZĀ

    C. P. Haase

    Timurid ruler in Samarqand from Ramażān, 853/October, 1449 to 26 Rabīʿ I 854/8 May 1450.

  • ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ

    P. P. Soucek

    revered as the calligrapher who gave šekasta script its definitive form.

  • ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ

    C. E. Bosworth

    the penultimate ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Khorasan and Transoxania, r. 389/999.

  • ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ B. NAṢR

    C. E. Bosworth

    ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Transoxania and Khorasan, 343-350/954-61.

  • ʿABD-AL-MALEK ŠĪRĀZĪ

    D. Pingree

    astronomer, fl. ca. 600/1203-04; there is a manuscript dated in that year of his revision of Helāl b. Abū Helāl and Ṯābet b. Qorra’s translation of the Conica of Appolonius.

  • ʿABD-AL-MALEKĪ

    P. Oberling

    a Lek tribe of Māzandarān.

  • ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN B. ʿABDALLĀH

    R. D. McChesney

    generally reckoned as the eleventh khan of the Shaibanid (Abu’l-Ḵayrī) dynasty of Māvarāʾ al-Nahr and Balḵ.

  • ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM ʿĀMELĪ

    D. Pingree

    10th/16th century astronomer.

  • ʿABD-AL-NABĪ

    K. A. Nizami

    Mughal traditionist, for a time much esteemed by the emperor Akbar (16th century).

  • ʿABD-AL-NABĪ AḤMADNAGARĪ

    M. Baqir

    12th/18th century Gujerati scholar.