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• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ḤAMADĀNĪ

  M. Bayat

  Faqīh, author, and well-known Sufi master of the Neʿmatallāhī order (d. 1216/1801).

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD KHAN

  S. Maqbul Ahmad

  North Indian politician, administrator, and patron of the arts (17th-18th century).

• ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Painter, calligrapher, and Mughal courtier (16th century). He entered the service of Homāyūn at Kabul in 956/1549 and remained an important artistic and governmental figure under Akbar (963-1014/1556-1605).

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• ʿABD-AL-SATTĀR LAHŪRĪ

  A. Camps

  author and translator in the reigns of Akbar and Jahāngīr.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED (Potter)

  O. Watson

  A potter whose signature is found on a blue and black underglaze painted dish dated 971/1563.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED (Author)

  D. Pingree

  8th/14th century author.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED B. ZAYD

  P. Nwyia

  (d. 177/793), Sufi, the leading personality among the ascetics trained in the school of Ḥasan Baṣrī.

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED HAMADĀNĪ

  T. Yazici

  Son of a Naqšbandī shaikh, author (d. 1547).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED JŪZJĀNĪ

  D. Pingree

  Pupil of Ebn Sīnā (980-1037).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED MAŠHADĪ

  F. Cağman and P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher active during the first half of the 10th/16th century.

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• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB BOHRĀ

  P. Saran

  chief judge (qāżī) in the reign of the Mughal emperor Awrangzēb.

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB MAŠHADĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  a calligrapher of the 10th/16th century who lived most of his life in Mašhad.

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB MOʿTAMAD-AL-DAWLA

  H. Javadi

  “NAŠĀṬ,” Qajar official and poet (1759-1829).

• ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB SAČAL

  A. Schimmel

  Sindhi mystical poet (18th-early 19th century).

• ʿABD-AL-VĀSEʿ JABALĪ

  Ẕ. Ṣafā

  Persian poet, d. 555/1160.

• ABDADĀNA

  M. Dandamayev

  Region in western Media, mentioned in Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions and annals.

• ABDAGASES

  C. J. Brunner

  “great king” of the Pahlava dynasty in Drangiana, Arachosia, Gandhāra, and perhaps loosely over the Indus region.

• ʿABDAK AL-ṢŪFĪ

  B. Reinert

  an eccentric religious devotee of Kūfa, who also lived for periods at Baghdad, late 2nd/8th to early 3rd/9th centuries.

• ABDĀL

  J. Chabbi

  An Arabic technical term designating one of the categories of awlīāʾ (“friends of God,” Muslim saints).

• ABDĀL BEG

  E. Glassen

  one of the seven trusted Qezelbāš amirs (ahl-e eḵteṣāṣ) who, after the death of Solṭān ʿAlī (898/1493), accompanied the latter’s young brother and designated master of the Safavid order, Esmāʿīl, to Lāhīǰān, where he found refuge from the persecution of the Āq Qoyonlū rulers.