Alessandro Bausani
(1921–1988), prolific Italian Orientalist in several fields: Persian Literature, Islam, linguistics, the history of Islamic science, Urdu, Indonesian, and other Islamic literatures. See BAUSANI, ALESSANDRO.
- ʿABD-AL-BAHĀʾ i. Life and work
i. Life and Work ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ was born in Tehran on 23 May 1844. He accompanied his father into exile. At…
- AQDAS
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