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ATĀBAKĀN-E ĀḎARBĀYJĀN, an influential family of military slave origin, also called Ildegozids, ruled parts of Arrān and Azarbaijan from about…

ALP ARSLĀN (b. Moḥarram, 420/January-February, 1029 according to Ebn al-Aṯīr, IX, p. 476; in 424/1032-33 according to Bondārī, Histoire, p….

ABU’L-QĀSEM HĀRŪN B. ʿALĪ B. ẒAFAR DANDĀN, RABĪB-AL-DONYĀ WA’L-DĪN, vizier of Atabeg Ozbek b. Moḥammad b. Eldagōz, ruler of Azarbaijan,…

ABŪ NAṢR MOSTAWFĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ ʿAZĪZ-AL-DĪN (or AL-ʿAZĪZ) AḤMAD B. AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. ʿABDALLĀH, 472-527/1079-80 to 1133, well-known official of…

EV-OḠLĪ (Īv-ōḡlī), ḤAYDAR BEG b. Abu’l-Qāsem, a court official of the later Safavid period. His father had done secretarial work…