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• ʿABD-AL-BAHĀʾ

  A. Bausani, D. MacEoin

  epithet assumed by ʿAbbās Effendi, the eldest son of Bahāʾallāh, founder of the Bahaʾi movement. The epithet means “servant of the glory of God” or “servant of Bahāʾallāh.”

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ LAʿLĪZĀDA

  T. Yazici

  (d. 1746 A.D.), Ottoman scholar, son of Shaikh Laʿlī Meḥmed, the grandson of Sarı ʿAbdallāh, a commentator on the Maṯnavī. 

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ NAHĀVANDĪ

  Hameed ud-Din

  Mughal noble and biographer.

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ TABRĪZĪ

  ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Kārang

  religious scholar and notable of Azerbaijan (d. 1039/1629-30).

• ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ YAZDĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Safavid official and poet skilled in calligraphy, killed at the battle of Čālderān in Raǰab 920/August 1514.

• ʿABD-AL-BARĪ

  F. Robinson

  early 20th century Indian scholar and pīr of the Ferangī Maḥal family.

• ʿABD-AL-FATTĀḤ GARMRŪDĪ

  H. Algar

  (ca. 1200-64/1786-1848), a scribe and minor author of the mid-Qajar period.

• ʿABD-AL-FATTĀH ḤOSAYNĪ

  M. B. Badakhshani

  Indian scholar of Persian and Arabic.

• ʿABD-AL-ḠANĪ KHAN

  M. Baqir

  Indian literary scholar and a poet in Persian and Urdu (d. 1916).

• ʿABD-AL-HĀDĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ

  H. Algar

  (1305-82/1888-1962), a Shiʿite scholar of Naǰaf, highly regarded for his learning and piety.