Douglas Morton Dunlop
- EBN AŠTAR
EBN AŠTAR, the name usually given to Abu Noʿmān Ebrāhim b. Mālek al-Aštar b. al-Hāreṯ al-Naḵaʿi (i.e., of al-Naḵaʿ, a…
- EBN MARZOBĀN, ABŪ AḤMAD ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
EBN MARZOBĀN (Marzbān), ABŪ AḤMAD ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN. b. ʿAlī b. Marzbān Ṭabīb Marzbānī (d. Tostar, Jomādā I 396/February-March 1006), administrative official…
- ʿALAWAYH
ʿALAWAYH (or in Ṭabarī, III, p. 1149) AL-AʿSAR (“the Left-handed”), ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALI B. ʿABDALLĀH B. SAYF, a noted singer at…
- ĀL-E MĀKŪLĀ
ĀL-E MĀKŪLĀ, a Persian noble family prominent at Baghdad in the 5th/11th century, including: 1. Abū Saʿd (or Saʿīd) ʿAbd-al-Wāḥed…
- AḤMAD B. JAʿFAR
AḤMAD B. JAʿFAR B. MŪSĀ B. YAḤYĀ B. ḴĀLED B. BARMAK, ABU’L-ḤASAN, poet, man of letters, musician, wit, and bon…
- ABŪ ʿEKREMA
ABŪ ʿEKREMA ZĪĀD B. DERHAM AL-SARRĀJ, otherwise known as ABŪ MOḤAMMAD AL-ṢĀDEQ, a freedman of Banū Ḥamdān, regarded as the…
- ʿABDALLĀH B. MOʿĀVĪA
ʿABDALLĀH B. MOʿĀVĪA B. ʿABDALLĀH B. JAʿFAR AL-ṬAYYĀR B. ABŪ ṬĀLEB, a Talebid rebel in western Iran in 127-29/744-47. Of…
- ʿABDALLĀH B. ḴĀZEM
ʿABDALLĀH B. ḴĀZEM B. ẒABYĀN B. AL-ṢALT AL-SOLAMĪ, ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ, Arab military leader, governor of Khorasan, partisan of ʿAbdallāh b….
- ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR AZDĪ
ʿABD-AL-JABBĀR B. ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN AL-AZDĪ, governor of Khorasan, executed in 142/759. An ʿAbbasid partisan, he was in command at Ṭūs in…
- ʿABBĀS AḤVAL
ʿABBĀS AḤVAL, leader with ʿAmr al-Azraq (Masʿūdī: al-Afvah) of an Arab invasion of the lower Euphrates region in which the…