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• MOḤAMMAD AL-JAWĀD, ABU JAʿFAR

  Louis Medoff

  (811-835), ninth imam of the Twelver Shiʿites, the only child of Imam ʿAli al-Reżā, was only seven years of age at the time of his father's death; The prospect of a non-adult imam brought about widespread confusion in the community.

• MOḤAMMAD b. ʿABD-ALLAH

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  (824/25-867), Abu’l -ʿAbbās, high official in Iraq and the central lands of the caliphate.

• MOḤAMMAD B. BOZORG-OMID

  Farhad Daftary

  the third lord of Alamut. He had been designated as heir by his father, Kiā Bozorg-Omid, only three days earlier.  Moḥammad duly received the allegiance of all the Nezāri territories in Persia and Syria.

• MOḤAMMAD B. NOṢAYR

  Yaron Friedman

  Abu Šoʿayb al-Nomayri/al-Namiri (d. after 868), the founder and eponym of the Nomayriya/Namiriya sect.

• MOḤAMMAD NĀDER SHAH

  May Schinasi

  (1883-1933), king of Afghanistan, first representative of the new Dorrāni dynasty.

• MOḤAMMAD SHAH QĀJĀR

  Jean Calmard

  (1808-1848), the third ruler of the Qajar dynasty after his grandfather Fatḥ-ʿAli Shah.

• MOḤAMMAD-AYYUB KHAN

  R. D. McChesney

  born Amir Šēr-ʿAli Khan, a prominent Afghan political figure of the Moḥammadzi clan (1857-1914).

• MOḤAMMAD-TAQI WAKIL-AL-DAWLA ŠIRĀZI

  Soli Shahvar

  (1830-1911), prominent Iranian Bahai merchant from Shiraz.

• MOHASSESS, ARDESHIR

  Nicky Nodjoumi

  The youngest of four children, Ardeshir was born to ʿAbbās-Qoli and Sorur Mahkāma Moḥaṣṣeṣṣ. His father was a judge and died when Ardeshir was an infant.  His mother, an educator and the principal of the first school for girls in Rasht, was a poet and literary figure and a close acquaintance of Parvin Eʿteṣāmi.

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• MOḤSENI, Akbar

  Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi

  (1912-1995) composer and prominent performer of the Ud (lute).