Richard W. Bulliet
- ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH B. AL-BAYYEʿ
ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH B. AL-BAYYEʿ (EBN AL-BAYYEʿ), a noted traditionist and local historian, b. 321/933, d. 405/1014; full name: ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH…
- ABŪ ʿAWN
ABŪ ʿAWN, ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. YAZĪD ḴORĀSĀNĪ AZDĪ, a distinguished ʿAbbasid general, twice governor of Egypt and once of Khorasan. Although…
- ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ
ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ, MESʿAR B. MOHALHEL AL-ḴAZRAJĪ, Arab traveler, poet, and frequenter of the Buyid court (ca. mid-4th/10th century). Reliable…
- ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD
ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD B. ḤOSAYN B. ʿAMR, a wealthy dehqān from Sabzavār who was prominent as a founder of…
- ABŪ SALAMA ḴALLĀL
ABŪ SALAMA ḤAFṢ B. SOLAYMĀN ḴALLĀL HĀMDĀNĪ, head of the Hashemite propaganda organization (daʿwa) that sparkled the ʿAbbasid revolution and…
- ĀL-E MĪKĀL
ĀL-E MĪKĀL, the leading aristocratic family of western Khorasan from the 3rd/9th to the 5th/11th century; descended from the pre-Islamic…
- BAḤĪRĪ FAMILY
BAḤĪRĪ, a major Shafiʿite family of Nishapur in the eleventh century. The family’s eponym is Baḥīr b. Nūḥ b. Ḥayyān…
- BĀLAWĪ FAMILY
BĀLAWĪ, prominent Nīšāpūr family of the 4th/10th and 5th/11th centuries. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Bālūya (whence the family…
- EBN AL-QAṢṢĀB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR MOʾAYYAD-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
EBN AL-QAṢṢĀB, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR MOʾAYYAD-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAlī, Shiʿite vizier of the caliph al-Nāṣer from 590/1194 to 592/1195 (b….
- CAMEL
CAMEL, šotor. i. Etymology. ii. In Persian history and economy. iii. In modern Persia. iv. Camel terminology. v. Šotor-qorbānī. …
- BESṬĀMĪ family
BESṬĀMĪ, leading family among the Shafeʿites of Nīšāpūr from the late 4th/10th through the early 6th/12th century. The first important…