Lois A. Giffen
- ABU’L-QĀSEM KŪFĪ
ABU’L-QĀSEM AL-KŪFĪ, ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD AL-ʿALAWĪ, a scholar of philosophy, theology, and other disciplines who was at first an Emāmī…
- ABU’L-WAZIR MARVAZĪ
ABU’L-WAZĪR ʿOMAR B. MOṬARREF B. MOḤAMMAD ʿABDĪ AL-MARVAZĪ, secretary and author, d. 186/802. The biographers confirm that his family was…
- ABŪ ʿOṮMĀN RABĪʿA
ABŪ ʿOṮMĀN RABĪʿA B. ABĪ ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN FARRŪḴ AL-TAYMĪ, often called RABĪʿAT-AL-RAʾY, important lawyer of the ancient school of Medina and…
- ABŪ MOṬĪʿ AL-BALḴĪ
ABŪ MOṬĪʿ AL-BALḴĪ, AL-ḤAKAM B. ʿABDALLĀH B. SALAMA B. ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN, faqīh, judge, and traditionist, disciple of Abū Ḥanīfa, died 183/799…
- ABU’L-FAŻL ŠĪRĀZĪ
ABU’L-FAŻL ŠĪRĀZĪ, AL-ʿABBĀS B. AL-ḤOSAYN, vizier in the time of the Buyids, patron of the Shiʿi Arab poet Ebn al-Ḥaǰǰāǰ,…
- ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ HAMADĀNĪ
ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ HAMADĀNĪ, ḤASAN B. AḤMAD B. ḤASAN B. MOḤAMMAD B. SAHL B. SALAMA AL-ʿAṬṬĀR, saintly specialist in the science of…
- ABĪVARDĪ, ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR
ABĪVARDĪ, ABUʾL-MOẒAFFAR MOḤAMMAD B. ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD AL-MOʿĀWĪ AL-KŪFANĪ, poet, historian, and writer on genealogy, died from poison at…
- ABĪVARDĪ, ḤOSĀM-AL-DĪN
ABĪVARDĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ḤOSĀM-AL-DĪN ḤASAN B. ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN, much traveled Shafeʿite jurisconsult, mathematician and logician, born 761/1360, died 816/1413….