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KĀŠEFI, KAMĀL-AL-DIN ḤOSAYN WĀʿEẒ
M. E . Subtelny
prolific prose-stylist of the Timurid era, religious scholar, Sufi figure, and influential preacher (b. Sabzavār, ca. 1436-37; d. Herat, 1504-5).
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KĀSEMI, NOṢRAT-ALLĀH
Mostafa Alamouti and EIr.
(1908-1996), physician, poet, writer, orator, and politician.
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KAŠF AL-ASRĀR
Cross-reference
wa ʿoddat al-abrār of Abu’l-Fażl Rašid-al-Dīn Meybodi. See MEYBODI.
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KAŠF AL-LOḠĀT WA’L-EṢṬELĀḤĀT
Solomon Bayevsky
(Revealing [of the meaning] of words and terminology), title of a Persian dictionary compiled in India before 1608.
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KAŠF AL-MAḤJUB of Hojviri
Jawid Mojaddedi
the only surviving work of Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAli b. ʿOṯmān Hojviri (d. between 1073 and 1077) and the oldest surviving independent manual of Sufism written in Persian.
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KAŠF AL-MAḤJUB of Sejzi
Hermann Landolt
(“Unveiling the hidden”), the Persian version of an Ismaʿili treatise originally written in Arabic by the 10th century dāʾi.
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KAŠF AL-ẒONUN
Kioumars Ghereghlou
(“Unveiling of suppositions”), a major bibliographical dictionary in Arabic, composed by Kāteb Čelebi Moṣṭafā b. ʿAbd-Allāh, also known as Ḥāji Ḵalifa (1609-57).
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KAŠF O ŠOHUD
Cyrus Ali Zargar
(“unveiling and witnessing”), terms commonly used by Muslim mystics to describe the acquisition of esoteric knowledge and the constant first-hand encountering of the divine presence.
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KAŠF-E ḤEJĀB
Cross-reference
See VEILING AND UNVEILING. Forthcoming.
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KAŠFI, MIR MOḤAMMAD ṢĀLEḤ ḤOSAYNI
Sunil Sharma
(d. 1651), calligrapher and poet in Mughal India. Authored several works in verse and prose.