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ESMĀʿĪL
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(ISHMAEL). See EBRĀHĪM.
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ESMĀʿĪL b. JAʿFAR AL-ṢĀDEQ
Farhad Daftary
the sixth Imam and the eponym of the Ismaʿilis.
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ESMĀʿĪL ḤAQQĪ BORSAVĪ
Tahsin Yazıcı
or Oskodārī, b. MOṢṬAFĀ, Shaikh Abu’l-Fedāʾ (b. Aydos 1652; d. Bursa, 1725), Turkish scholar, theologian, and mystic.
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ESMĀʿĪL I ṢAFAWĪ
Roger M. Savory, Ahmet T. Karamustafa
(1487-1524), SHAH ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR, founder of the Safavid dynasty whose decision, the promulgation of the Eṯnā-ʿašarī rite of Shiʿism to be the official religion of the state, had profound consequences for the subsequent history of Persia.
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ESMĀʿIL II
Kioumars Ghereghlou
(1537-1577), the third Safavid monarch, fought the Ottomans as the governor of Šervan and later was made the crown prince by Ṭahmāsp I and sent to Qazvin. His liaisons with male companions led to his demotion and imprisonment, until he took the throne with the backing of his supporters.
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ESMĀʿĪL III ṢAFAWĪ
John R. Perry
(r. 1750-73), ABŪ TORĀB, Safavid shadow-king, the third Safavid dynast of that name.
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ESMĀʿĪL ḴANDĀN
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See ALTUNTĀŠ.
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ESMĀʿIL KHAN BURBUR
Dariush Borbor
(1800-1888), high ranking military official under the Qajars.
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ESMĀʿĪL KHAN QAŠQĀʾĪ
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ṢAWLAT-AL-DAWLA, SARDĀR-E ʿAŠĀYER. See ṢAWLAT-AL-DAWLA.
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ESMĀʿĪL KHAN ṢĪMQO
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or SEMĪTQŪ. See ṢĪMQO.
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ESMĀʿĪL ZĀDA, ḤOSAYN KHAN
Moḥammad-Taqī Masʿūdīya
(d. 1941), teacher and master player of the kamānča.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. ʿABBĀD, ṢĀḤEB
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See ṢĀḤEB b. ʿABBĀD.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Aḥmad b. Asad SĀMĀNĪ, ABŪ EBRĀHĪM
C. Edmund Bosworth
(849-907), the first member of the Samanid dynasty to rule over all Transoxania and Farḡāna.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Nūḥ, ABŪ EBRĀHĪM MONTAṢER
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(d. 1004), last Samanid amir.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Rokn-al-Dīn Yaḥyā
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See MAJD-AL-DĪN ESMĀʿĪL.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Seboktegīn
C. Edmund Bosworth
Ghaznavid prince and briefly amir in Ḡazna in 997-98.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Yasār NESĀʾĪ
Kevin Lacey
an eighth century poet of Persian origin from Medina.
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ʿEṢMAT
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See ČAHĀRDAH MAʿṢŪM.
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ʿEṢMAT BOḴĀRĪ, Ḵᵛāja ʿEṢMAT-ALLĀH
Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
b. Masʿūd Boḵārī (d. 1436), poet and scholar of the early Timurid period, known also for his expertise in mathematics, history, prosody, riddles, and mastery of enšāʾ.
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ESOTERIC SECTS
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See BĀṬENĪYA; ḠOLĀT; ISMAʿILISM.