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• ALF LAYLA WA LAYLA

  Ch. Pellat

  “One thousand nights and one night,” Arabic title of the world-famous collection of tales known in English as The Arabian Nights. 

• ALFARIC, PROSPER

  H. C. Puech

  (1876-1955), French historian of religions.  

• ALFĪYA VA ŠALFĪYA

  Cross-Reference

  name given to illustrated books, in particular one by Azraqī, describing various kinds of sexual relationships between men and women. See AZRAQI.

• ʿALĪ ʿAJAMĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ, ḴᵛĀJA.

• ʿALĪ AKBAR

  J. Calmard

  Imam Ḥosayn’s eldest son, killed at the age of 18, 19, or 25 at the battle of Karbalā on the day of ʿĀšūrā (10 Moḥarram 61/10 October 680).

• ʿALĪ AKBAR ḤOSAYNĪ ARDESTĀNĪ

  K. A. Nizami

  Indo-Muslim taḏkera writer, remembered solely for his unpublished Maǰmaʿ al-awlīāʾ, an encyclopedia of Sufi saints compiled in 1043/1633-34 and dedicated to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān (1037-68/1628-58).

• ʿALĪ AKBAR ḴEṬĀʾĪ

  T. Yazici

  (15th-16th centuries), author of the Persian Ḵeṭāy-nāma or “Book of Cathay,” i.e., of China.

• ʿALĪ AKBAR ŠAHMĪRZĀDĪ

  M. Momen

  known as Ḥāǰǰ Āḵund, a prominent Iranian Bahāʾī (b. 1842).

• ʿALĪ AL-AʿLĀ

  H. Algar

  (d. 822/1419), also known as Amīr Sayyed ʿAlī, principal successor of Fażlallāh Astarābādī, founder of the Ḥorūfī sect.

• ʿALĪ AL-HĀDĪ

  W. Madelung

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