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EBN ABĪ JOMHŪR AḤSĀʾĪ, Moḥammad
Todd Lawson
b. Zayn-al-Dīn Abi’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥosām-al-Dīn Ebrāhīm (b. ca. 1433-34; d. after 4 July 1499), Shiʿite thinker.
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EBN ABĪ ṢĀDEQ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABD-al-RAḤMĀN
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad NAYŠĀBŪRĪ (Nīšāpūr, 11th century), medical author known in the century after his death, at least in Khorasan, as “the second Hippocrates," and reportedly a student of Avicenna.
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EBN ABĪ ṬĀHER ṬAYFŪR, ABU’L-FAŻL AḤMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
(819-93), littérateur (adīb) and historian of Baghdad, of a Khorasani family.
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EBN ABI’L ḤADĪD
Cross-Reference
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EBN AL-ʿAMĪD
Ihsan Abbas
cognomen of two famous viziers of the 4th/10th century: Abu’l-Fażl and his son Abu’l-Fatḥ.
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EBN AL-ʿARABĪ, MOḤYĪ-al-DĪN Abū ʿAbd-Allāh Moḥammad Ṭāʾī Ḥātemī
William C. Chittick
(b. 28 July 1165; d. 10 November 1240), the most influential Sufi author of later Islamic history, known to his supporters as al-Šayḵ al-akbar, “the Greatest Master.”
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EBN AL-AṮĪR, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
D. S. Richards
b. Moḥammad Jazarī (b. Jazīrat Ebn ʿOmar [modern Cizre, in eastern Turkey] 13 May 1160; d. Mosul, June 1233), major Islamic historian and important source for the history of Persia and adjacent areas from the Samanids to the first Mongol invasion.
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EBN AL-BALḴĪ
C. Edmund Bosworth
conventional name for an otherwise unknown author of Fārs-nāma, a local history and geography of the province of Fārs written in Persian during the Saljuq period.
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EBN AL-BAYṬĀR, ŻĪĀʾ-AL-DĪN ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH
Hūšang Aʿlam
b. Aḥmad (?-1248), Andalusian botanist and pharmacologist.
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EBN AL-BAYYEʿ
Cross-Reference
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EBN AL-ʿEBRĪ, ABU’L-FARAJ
Herman G. B. Teule
(1225-1286), Syriac historian and polymath. Most of his works were in Syriac, but he also wrote in Arabic. In his Syriac Chronicle, much attention is given to the vicissitudes of the Jacobite and East Syrian, or Nestorian, churches in the “Persian territories.”
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EBN AL-EḴŠĪD, ABŪ BAKR AḤMAD
Daniel Gimaret
b. ʿAlī b. Beḡčor (884-938), Muʿtazilite theologian.
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EBN AL-FAQĪH, ABŪ BAKR AḤMAD
Anas B. Khalidov
b. Moḥammad b. Esḥāq b. Ebrāhīm HAMADĀNĪ Aḵbārī (fl. second half of the 9th century), man of letters, who wrote in Arabic Ketāb aḵbār al- boldān, a geographic work, in which primarily the Islamic world with its centers in Arabia, Persia, and Iraq are described.
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EBN AL-FOWAṬĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ
Charles Melville
(1244-1323), b. Aḥmad, librarian and historian.
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EBN AL-JEʿĀBĪ, ABŪ BAKR MOḤAMMAD
Wilferd Madelung
(897-966), b. ʿOmar Tamīmī Ḥāfeẓ, traditionist with Shiʿite leanings.
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EBN AL-JONAYD, ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD
Wilferd Madelung
or al-Jonaydī; b. Aḥmad Kāteb Eskāfī, 10th century Imami jurist.
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EBN AL-MOQAFFAʿ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH RŌZBEH
J. Derek Latham
(721-757), b. Dādūya/Dādōē, chancery secretary (kāteb) and major Arabic prose writer.
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EBN AL-MOṬAHHAR
Cross-Reference
See ḤELLĪ, ʿALLĀMA.
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EBN AL-NADĪM
Cross-Reference
Shi'ite scholar and bibliographer of the 10th century, famous as the author of Ketāb al-fehrest. See under FEHREST.
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EBN AL-QAṢṢĀB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR MOʾAYYAD-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Richard W. Bulliet
(b. ca. 1128), b. ʿAlī, Shiʿite vizier of the caliph al-Nāṣer from 1194 to 1195.