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• ESḤĀQ

  Mohsen Zakeri

  b. ṬOLAYQ (or Ṭalīq), the secretary responsible for translating the financial dīvāns of Khorasan into Arabic in 741-42.

• ESḤĀQ AḤMAR NAḴAʿI

  Mushegh Asatryan

  a prominent Shiʿi extremist active in Iraq, founder of the Esḥāqiya ḡolāt sect, and the supposed author of a number of texts.

• ESḤĀQ KHAN QARĀʾĪ TORBATĪ

  Kambiz Eslami

  (ca. 1743-1816), one of the wealthiest and most powerful chieftains in Khorasan during the reigns of Āḡā Moḥammad Khan and Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah Qājār.

• ESḤĀQ MAWṢELĪ

  Everett K. Rowson

  (767?-850), prominent musician at the ʿAbbasid court in Baghdad and the successor of his equally famous father Ebrāhīm Mawṣelī as leader of the conservative school of musicians of the time.

• ESḤĀQ TORK

  ʿAbd-al-Ḥosayn Zarrīnkūb

  propagandist sent by Abū Moslem Ḵorāsānī (governor of Khorasan and leading figure in the ʿAbbasid revolution) to the Turkish people of Transoxania.

• ESḤAQĪYA

  Cross-Reference

  See ḠOLĀT.

• ESḤĀQZĪ

  Daniel Balland

  The geographical distribution of the tribe shows the dualism typical to those Pashtun tribes who have massively taken part in the colonization of North Afghanistan, a process in which the Esḥāqzī played a leading role.

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• EŠĪK-ĀQĀSĪ-BĀŠĪ

  Roger M. Savory

  or Īšīk-āqāsī-bāšī, the title of two officials in the Safavid central administration, namely ešīk-āqāsī-bāšī-e dīvān, and ešīk-āqāsī-bāšī-e ḥaram.

• ESKĀFI, ABŪ ḤANĪFA

  J. T. P. de Bruijn

  11th century Persian poet, mentioned among the court poets of Ḡazna.

• ESKĀFĪ, ABŪ JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD

  Josef van Ess

  b. ʿAbd-Allāh, Muʿtazilite theologian of the 9th century (d. 854).