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ʿALĪ B. AL-ḤOSAYN B. ʿALĪ B. ABĪ ṬĀLEB, ZAYN-AL-ʿĀBEDĪN, the fourth Imam of the Emāmī Shiʿites. His konyas are given as Abu’l-Ḥasan, Abu’l-Ḥosayn, Abū Moḥammad, Abū Bakr, and Abū ʿAbdallāh. According to most sources, he was born in 38/658-59 in Medina. Other dates mentioned are 33/653-54, 36/656-57, 37/657-58, and 50/670….

ʿALĪ B. IL-ARSLAN QARĪB or ḴᵛĪŠĀVAND, ZAʿĪM-AL-ḤOJJĀB, Turkish military commander of the early Ghaznavids Maḥmūd, Moḥammad and Masʿūd I, and a dominant figure in the disputes over the succession at Maḥmūd’s death in 421/1030. Under Sultan Maḥmūd, ʿAlī had been commander-in-chief (ḥāǰeb-e bozorg, al-ḥāǰeb al-kabīr) of the army; the designation…

ʿALĪ B. MASʿŪD I, BAHĀʾ-AL-DAWLA ABU’L-ḤASAN, Ghaznavid sultan, reigned ca. 440/1048-49. Masʿūd II b. Mawdūd and then ʿAlī b. Masʿūd I were the two ephemeral successors of Sultan Mawdūd b. Masʿūd I (r. 432-41/1041-50). Little is known about their reigns; many later sources do not even mention their existence. Our…

ʿALĪ B. MAʾMŪN, ABU’L-ḤASAN, second Ḵᵛārazmšāh of the short-lived Maʾmunid dynasty in Ḵᵛārazm (reigned 387-ca. 399/997-ca. 1008-09). He was married to Maḥmūd of Ḡazna’s sister Kah-Kālǰī (ʿOtbī, al-Taʾrīḵ al-Yamīnī, with commentary of Shaikh Manīnī, Cairo, 1286/1869, II, p. 151), and the latter was, after his death, taken over by his…

ʿALĪ B. OWAYS, Jalayerid prince usually known as Šāhzāda Shaikh ʿAlī, one of the five sons of Oways I (r. 575-76/1356-74). In 776/1374 the dying Oways made his son Ḥosayn co-sovereign (on coins) and heir, condoned the murder of his eldest son, Ḥasan, and gave ʿAlī Baghdad. Esmāʿīl, son of…

ʿALĪ B. ŠAMS-AL-DĪN B. ḤĀJJĪ ḤOSAYN LĀHĪJĪ, author of the Tārīḵ-eḴānī. Nothing is known about the author except from his book, which he wrote at the order of Sultan Aḥmad Khan, Kīāʾī ruler of Gīlān (911-43/1505-37), and his vizier Serāǰ-al-dīn Qāsem. The writing began in Moḥarram, 921/February, 1515 and was…

ʿALĪ B. SOLṬĀN-MOḤAMMAD, MĪRZĀ, a master painter of the early Safavid period. ʿAlī Čelebī, writing in 995/1586, numbers him among the leading masters of the age and singles out his talent as a designer (Manāqeb-e honarvarān, ed. İ. Maḥmūd Kemāl, Istanbul, 1926). As the son of the illustrious painter Solṭān…