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• ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ

  W. Madelung

  the 10th imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites (d. 254/868).

• ʿALĪ AL-NAQĪ

  Cross-Reference

  IMAM. See ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ.

• ʿALĪ AL-REŻĀ

  W. Madelung

  the eighth Imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites.

• ʿALĪ ĀQĀ TABRĪZĪ, MIRZA

  Cross-Reference

  See ṮEQAT-AL-ESLĀM.

• ʿALĪ AṢḠAR

  J. Calmard

  Imam Ḥosayn’s youngest son, killed at Karbalā (10 Moḥarram 61/10 October 680).

• 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.

• 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). 

• 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.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿABDALLĀH

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALAWAYH AʿSAR.

• 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).