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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).

• ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD BALḴĪ

  D. Pingree

  post-3rd/9th century astronomer.

• 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

• 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.

• ʿALĪ B. FARĀMARZ

  C. E. Bosworth

  member of the Deylamī dynasty of the Kakuyids (d. 1095).

• ʿALĪ B. ḤĀMED

  cross-reference

  KŪFĪ. See ČĀČ-NĀMA.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤARB

  C. E. Bosworth

  (or ʿAlī b. ʿOṯmān b. Ḥarb), ephemeral Saffarid amir of the so-called “third Saffarid dynasty”.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN

  cross-reference

  See ʿALĪTIGIN.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤOSĀM-AL-DAWLA

  cross-reference

  ŠAHRĪĀR. See ʿALĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ʿALĪ.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN AL-ŠARĪF

  cross-reference

  AL-MORTAŻĀ. See ʿALAM-AL-HODĀ.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN ANṢĀRĪ

  cross-reference

  See ZAYN-AL-DĪN ʿAṬṬĀR.

• ʿALĪ B. ḤOSAYN B. ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB

  W. Madelung

  , ZAYN-AL-ʿĀBEDĪN (d. ca. 712-13), the fourth Imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites.

• ʿALĪ B. IL-ARSLAN QARĪB

  C. E. Bosworth

  or ḴᵛĪŠĀVAND, ZAʿĪM-AL-ḤOJJĀB, Turkish military commander of the early Ghaznavids Maḥmūd, Moḥammad and Masʿūd I.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿĪSĀ B. DĀʾŪD

  D. Sourdel

   B. AL-JARRĀḤ (245-334/859-946), vizier during the reign of the caliph Moqtader (r. 908-32). His family was of Persian origin resident in Iraq.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿĪSĀ B. MĀHĀN

  Ch. Pellat

  (d. 812), officer in the service of the ʿAbbasids.

• ʿALĪ B. MAʾMŪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  , ABU’L-ḤASAN, second Ḵᵛārazmšāh of the short-lived Maʾmunid dynasty in Ḵᵛārazm (r. 997-ca. 1008-09).

• ʿALĪ B. MASʿŪD

  C. E. Bosworth

  [I], BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ABU’L-ḤASAN, Ghaznavid sultan, reigned briefly ca. 1048-49.

• ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD

  cross-reference

  See ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD.

• ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD B. ABĪ ṬĀHER

  cross-reference

  See ABŪ ṬĀHER.

• ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD B. ʿALĪ

  cross-reference

  ASTARĀBĀDĪ. See ŠARĪF JORJĀNĪ.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿOBAYDALLĀH

  M. J. McDermott

  B. ḤASAN ḤASKĀ B. ḤOSAYN B. ḤASAN B. ḤOSAYN, Shiʿite traditionist and biographer (b. 1110-11, d. after 1189). 

• ʿALĪ B. ʿOBAYDALLĀH ṢĀDEQ

  C. E. Bosworth

  , ABU’L ḤASAN (d. ca. 1040), Ghaznavid military commander under Sultan Masʿūd I.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿOMAR

  cross-reference

  KĀTEBĪ QAZVĪNĪ. See NAJM-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ.

• ʿALĪ B. ʿOṮMĀN

  cross-reference

  B. ḤARB. See ʿALĪ B. ḤARB.

• ʿALĪ B. OWAYS

  J. M. Smith, Jr.

  Jalayerid prince usually known as Šāhzāda Shaikh ʿAlī, one of the five sons of Oways I (r. 1356-74).

• ʿALĪ B. ŠAMS-AL-DĪN

  W. Madelung

  author of the Tārīḵ-e Ḵānī. 

• ʿALĪ B. ŠOJĀʿ-AL-DĪN

  cross-reference

  See ʿALĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ.

• ʿALĪ B. SOLṬĀN-MOḤAMMAD

  A. Welch

  , MĪRZĀ, a master painter of the early Safavid period.

• ʿALĪ B. ṬAYFŪR

  M. A. Nayeem

  BESṬĀMĪ, historian and litterateur at the courts of Sultan ʿAbdallāh Qoṭbšāh (1626-72) and his successor Sultan Abu’l-Ḥasan (1672-86).

• ʿALĪ B. ZAYD

  cross-reference

  BAYHAQĪ. See BAYHAQĪ, ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN.

• ʿALĪ BESṬĀMĪ

  D. M. MacEoin

  early Bābī ʿālem and member of the ḥorūf al-ḥayy or sābeqūn, the first followers of the Bāb.

• ʿALĪ DĀYA

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪ B. ʿOBAYDALLĀH.

• ALĪ DYNASTY

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E ʿALĪ.

• ʿALĪ EBRĀHĪM KHAN

  F. Lehmann

  Indian statesman and literary figure (d. 1208/1793-94).

• ʿALĪ HAMADĀNĪ

  G. B

  full name: ʿALĪ B. ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN B. MOḤAMMAD HAMADĀNĪ, MĪR SAYYED, surnamed ʿAlī-e Ṯānī, Šāh-e Hamadān, and Amīr-e Kabīr, major 8th/14th century Sufi saint.

• ʿALĪ HERAVĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  also known as MĪR ʿALĪ KĀTEB ḤOSAYNĪ, a calligrapher active in Herat, Mašhad, and Bukhara from the late 9/15th century to 951/1544-45.

• ʿALĪ KANĪ

  H. Algar

  MOLLĀ (1220-1306/1805-88), an influential and wealthy moǰtahed of Tehran who played a decisive role in obtaining the cancellation of the Reuter Concession in 1873. 

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• ALĪ KĀY

  B. Hourcade

  a semi-nomadic Gīlakī-speaking tribe that winters in the foothills of the central Alborz.

• ʿALĪ KHAN AMĪN AL-DAWLA, MĪRZĀ

  Cross-Reference

  , MĪRZĀ. See AMĪN-AL-DAWLA.

• ʿALĪ KHAN ḤĀJEB-AL-DAWLA

  H. Busse

  Qajar official (1222-84/1807-08 to 1867).

• ALI KOSH

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿALĪKOŠ.