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ʿALĪ AL-NAQĪ
Cross-Reference
IMAM. See ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ.
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ʿALĪ AL-REŻĀ
W. Madelung
the eighth Imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites.
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ʿALĪ ĀQĀ TABRĪZĪ, MIRZA
Cross-Reference
See ṮEQAT-AL-ESLĀM.
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ʿALĪ AṢḠAR
J. Calmard
Imam Ḥosayn’s youngest son, killed at Karbalā (10 Moḥarram 61/10 October 680).
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ʿALĪ AṢḠAR BORŪJERDĪ
L. P. Elwell-Sutton
author of several works including the ʿAqāʾed al-šīʿa, written in 1263/1874 and dedicated to Moḥammad Shah Qāǰār.
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ʿALĪ AṢḠAR ČEŠTĪ
K. A. Nizami
Mughal hagiographer, chiefly known for his Jawāher-e Farīdī, compiled in 1033/1623 during the reign of Jahāngīr (1014-37/1605-27).
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ʿALĪ B. ʿABBĀS MAJŪSĪ
L. Richter-Bernburg
physician from Fārs and author of an Arabic work on medicine (d. /994 [?]); probably the most important medical writer between Rāzī and Ebn Sīnā.
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ʿALĪ B. ʿABDALLĀH
Cross-Reference
See ʿALAWAYH AʿSAR.
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ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB
I. K. Poonawala, E. Kohlberg
(b. ca. 600, d. 40/661), cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Moḥammad, first Shiʿite Imam, father of the Imams Ḥasan and Ḥosayn by Fāṭema, and fourth caliph (35-40/656-61).
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ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD BALḴĪ
D. Pingree
post-3rd/9th century astronomer.
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ʿALĪ B. ASAD
ʿA. Ḥabībī
(second half of the 11th cent.), the amir of Badaḵšān to whom Nāṣer(-e) Ḵosrow dedicated his Jāmeʿ al-ḥekmatayn
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ʿALĪ B. BŪYA
Cross-Reference
the eldest of three brothers who came to power in western Persia as military adventurers and founded the Buyid dynasty. See ʿEMĀD-AL-DAWLA.
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ʿALĪ B. FARĀMARZ
C. E. Bosworth
member of the Deylamī dynasty of the Kakuyids (d. 1095).
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ʿALĪ B. ḤĀMED
cross-reference
KŪFĪ. See ČĀČ-NĀMA.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤARB
C. E. Bosworth
(or ʿAlī b. ʿOṯmān b. Ḥarb), ephemeral Saffarid amir of the so-called “third Saffarid dynasty”.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN
cross-reference
See ʿALĪTIGIN.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤOSĀM-AL-DAWLA
cross-reference
ŠAHRĪĀR. See ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ʿALĪ.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN AL-ŠARĪF
cross-reference
AL-MORTAŻĀ. See ʿALAM-AL-HODĀ.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN ANṢĀRĪ
cross-reference
See ZAYN-AL-DĪN ʿAṬṬĀR.
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ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN B. ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB
W. Madelung
ZAYN-AL-ʿĀBEDĪN (d. ca. 712-13), the fourth Imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites.