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• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. ABUʾL-ḤADĪD

  W. Madelung

  Muʿtazilite scholar and man of letters (13th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. AḤMAD

  C. E. Bosworth

  Vizier of the Ghaznavids in the late 5th/11th to early 6th/12th century. He is described as serving Sultan Ebrāhīm b. Masʿūd (451-92/1059-99).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMID b. AḤMAD b. ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ŠIRĀZI

  C. E. Bosworth

  long-serving vizier to the Ghaznavid sultans Ebrāhim b. Masʿud (r. 451-92/1059-99) and his son Masʿud III (r. 492-508/1199-1215).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. ʿĪSĀ

  G. C. Anawati

  Physician, theologian, philosopher, and jurist (580-652/1184-1254).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. VĀSEʿ

  D. Pingree

  Mathematician, often referred to as Ebn Tork, who apparently flourished at the beginning of the 2nd/9th century.

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD B. YAḤYĀ

  W. N. Brinner

  An important figure in the development of Arabic epistolary style, especially in the stablishment of chancery style during the Umayyad period (d. 132/750).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD LĀHŪRĪ

  R. M. Eaton

  17th-century Indo-Persian historian and author of the Pādšāh-nāma, the official account of the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān (1037-67/1628-57).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAMĪD MALEK-AL-KALĀMĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher, poet, and government official (d. 1949).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAQQ DEHLAVĪ

  N. H. Zaidi

  Noted Mughal traditionist, historian, essayist, and biographer of saints (16th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ḤAYY AWRANGĀBĀDĪ

  M. Baqir

  administrator, poet, and biographer (1729-82).