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AḤMAD KHATTŪ
K. A. Nizami
famous medieval Gujarati saint whose name is associated with the foundation of the city of Ahmadabad (b. Delhi, 737/1336; d. Sarkhej, 10 Šawwal 849/9 January 1446).
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AḤMAD ḴOJESTĀNĪ
C. E. Bosworth
military commander in 3rd/9th century Khorasan, one of several contenders for authority in the region after the collapse of Taherid rule had left a power vacuum, d. 268/882.
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AḤMAD MAYMANDĪ
Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī
(d. 424/1032), Ghaznavid vizier, statesman, and foster brother and schoolfellow of Sultan Maḥmūd of Ḡazna (r. 388-421/998-1030).
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AḤMAD MŪSĀ
P. P. Soucek
8th/14th century painter.
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AḤMAD NEHĀVANDĪ
D. Pingree
2nd/8th century ʿAbbasid astronomer.
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AḤMAD RODAWLAVĪ
B. B. Lawrence
early Muslim saint of the Ṣāberīya Češtīya (d. 837/1434.
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AḤMAD ṢĀḠĀNĪ
D. Pingree
one of the many astronomers who worked for the Buyids in Baghdad in the 4th/10th century.
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AḤMAD SERHENDĪ (1)
Y. Friedmann
Shaikh (1564-1624), outstanding Mughal mystic and prolific writer on Sufi themes.
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AHMAD SERHENDI (2)
Demetrio Giordani
Shaikh (1564-1624), Indian Sufi known as Mojadded-e alf-e Ṯāni, the Renovator of the second millennium (of Islam).
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AḤMAD SHAH DORRĀNĪ
Cross-Reference
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AḤMAD SHAH QĀJĀR
M. J. Sheikh-ol-Islami
(r. 1909-1925), the seventh and last ruler of the Qajar dynasty.
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AḤMAD ŠĪRĀZĪ
C. E. Bosworth
Ghaznavid official and vizier, d. ca. 434/1043.
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AḤMAD SOLṬĀN AFŠĀR
R. M. Savory
Qizilbāš amir in the Safavid service.
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AḤMAD TABRĪZĪ
İ. Aka
Persian poet (first half of the 8th/14th century).
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AḤMAD TAKŪDĀR
P. Jackson
third il-khan of Iran (r. 680-83/1282-84), seventh son of Hülegü.
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AḤMAD TŪNĪ
J. van Ess
Karrāmī theologian who lived about 400/1010.
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AḤMAD YĀDGĀR
Hameed-ud-Din
10th/16th century historian of the Afghans in India.
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AḤMAD, NEẒĀM-AL-DIN
Erika Glassen
vizier and amir under the Timurids (d. 912/1507).
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AHMADABAD
L. A. Desai
Major city of Gujarat state in western India and a former center of Persian culture.
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AḤMADĀVAND
P. Oberling
a small, sedentary Kurdish tribe of western Iran.