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EBN DAYṢĀN
Cross-Reference
See BARDESANES.
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EBN DOROSTAWAYH, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALL
Seeger A. Bonebakker
b. Jaʿfar b. Dorostawayh b. Marzbān (b. Fasā, 871; d. Baghdad, May 958), grammarian and lexicographer of Persian origin.
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EBN ELYĀS, MANṢŪR
Gul A. Russell
(fl. late 14th-early 15th cent.), author of two extant Persian works: a medical compilation titled Kefāya-ye mojāhedīya and an illustrated anatomy text known as the Tašrīḥ-e manṣūrī. The five full-page drawings, corresponding to the five treatises in the Tašrīḥ, are unique in the history of Islamic medicine.
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EBN ESFANDĪĀR, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Charles Melville
b. Ḥasan, historian, probably from Āmol, who flourished around the turn of the 13th century.
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EBN FAHD ḤELLĪ, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS JAMĀL-AL-DĪN AḤMAD
Marco Salami
b. Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad (1355-1437), Imami scholar and jurist.
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EBN FARĪḠŪN
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN.
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EBN FAŻLĀN
Cross-Reference
See AḤMAD B. FAŻLĀN.
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EBN FONDOQ
Cross-Reference
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EBN FŪLĀD
C. Edmund Bosworth
(or Ebn Pūlād), military adventurer, probably of Daylamī origin, active in northern Persia during the Buyid period (early 11th century) and typical of the soldiers of fortune characterizing the “Daylamī intermezzo” of medieval Persian history.
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EBN FŪRAK
Forthcoming
EBN FŪRAK. See Supplement.
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EBN ḤAWQAL, ABU’L-QĀSEM MOḤAMMAD
Anas B. Khalidov
b. ʿAlī Naṣībī, traveler and geographer of the 10th century.
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EBN ḤAWŠAB, ABU’L-QĀSEM ḤASAN
Heinz Halm
b. Faraj (or Faraḥ) b. Ḥawšab b. Zāḏān Najjār Kūfī, known also as Manṣūr al-Yaman (d. 914), Ismaʿili dāʿī and founder of the Ismaʿili community in northern Yemen.
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EBN HENDŪ, ABU’L-FARAJ ʿALĪ
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
b. Ḥosayn, also known as Ostāḏ (b. in Ṭabarestān, no later than the early 960s; d. in or after 1031), author of, inter alia, propaedeutic epistles on philosophy and medicine and of a gnomology of Greek wisdom, and generally renowned as a litterateur.
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EBN ḤOSĀM ḴᵛĀFĪ, MOḤAMMAD
Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
or Ḵūsfī, a poet of the 15th century.
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EBN ḴAFĪF
Forthcoming
See Supplement.
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EBN ḴĀLAWAYH, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ḤOSAYN
Michael G. Carter
b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamdān Hamaḏānī, philologist and Koran scholar.
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EBN ḴALDŪN, ABŪ ZAYD ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
Franz Rosenthal
b. Moḥammad (b. 27 May 1332; d. 17 March 1406), the historian famous for the general theory of history and civilization brilliantly expounded in his Moqaddema.
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EBN ḴALLĀD, ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD BAṢRĪ
Daniel Gimaret
(d. 2nd half of 10th century), Muʿtazilite theologian of the so-called “school of Baṣra,” partisan of the ideas of Abū Hāšem Jobbāʾī.
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EBN ḴAMMĀR, ABU’L-ḴAYR ḤASAN
W. Montgomery Watt
b. Savār (or Sovār), b. Bābā b. Bahrām (or Behnām) Ḵᵛārazmī, philosopher.
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EBN ḴĀQĀN, FATḤ
Cross-Reference
See FATḤ B. ḴĀQĀN.