Kamal Abu-Deeb
- ʿABD-AL-QĀHER JORJĀNĪ
ʿABD-AL-QĀHER JORJĀNĪ, ABŪ BAKR B. ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN, celebrated grammarian, rhetorician, and literary theorist, born in Gorgān (date unknown), where he died…
- ABU’L-FARAJ EṢFAHĀNĪ
ABU’L-FARAJ EṢFAHĀNĪ, ʿALĪ B. AL-ḤOSAYN B. MOḤAMMAD B. AḤMAD, author of the Ketāb al-aḡānī. He was a Quraishite and the…
- AḠĀNĪ, KETĀB AL-
AL-AḠĀNĪ, KETĀB (“The Book of Songs”), the major work of Abu’l-Faraǰ Eṣfahānī (284-356/897-967). Although thirty-six works are attributed to him…