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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
Cross-Reference
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
Cross-Reference
(d. 1004), last Samanid amir.
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ESMĀʿĪL, b. Rokn-al-Dīn Yaḥyā
Cross-Reference
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
Cross-Reference
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.