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ʿABD-AL-JALĪL BELGRĀMĪ
M. Siddiqi
major 17th/18th century Indo-Muslim litterateur.
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ʿABD-AL-JALĪL RĀZĪ
W. Madelung
Emāmī Shiʿite scholar, preacher, and author, b. probably early in the 6th/12th century.
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ʿABD-AL-ḴĀLEQ ḠOJDOVĀNĪ
K. A. Nizami
teacher and distinguished Naqšbandī saint (d. 617/1220), who consolidated and transmitted the thought of the Naqšbandī order.
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ʿABD-AL-ḴĀN
P. Oberling
an Arab tribe of Ḵūzestān, it was originally affiliated with the Bani Lām tribal confederacy and resided in the region of ʿAmāra, in present-day Iraq.
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ʿALAVĪ
N. H. Zaidi
early 19th century Indo-Persian historian (d. ca. 1851).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM BOḴĀRĪ
M. Zand
Bukharan traveler and memorialist (d. after 1830-31).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM GAZĪ
H. Algar
a respected religious leader of Isfahan (1856-1921).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ
S. Maqbul Ahmad
noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns (d. 1784).
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ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ḴᵛĀRAZMĪ
P. P. Soucek
specimens of calligraphy now in Leningrad and Istanbul are signed by him as written during his tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years, indicating that he was a skilled calligrapher at an early age. Unfortunately, none of these pages bear dates which would make it possible to determine the year of his birth.
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ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF BHETĀʾĪ
M. Baqir
Sufi poet of Sind (1689-1752).
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ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF MĪRZĀ
C. P. Haase
Timurid ruler in Samarqand from Ramażān, 853/October, 1449 to 26 Rabīʿ I 854/8 May 1450.
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ʿABD-AL-MAJĪD ṬĀLAQĀNĪ
P. P. Soucek
revered as the calligrapher who gave šekasta script its definitive form.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ
C. E. Bosworth
the penultimate ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Khorasan and Transoxania, r. 389/999.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK B. NŪḤ B. NAṢR
C. E. Bosworth
ruler of the Samanid dynasty in Transoxania and Khorasan, 343-350/954-61.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEK ŠĪRĀZĪ
D. Pingree
astronomer, fl. ca. 600/1203-04; there is a manuscript dated in that year of his revision of Helāl b. Abū Helāl and Ṯābet b. Qorra’s translation of the Conica of Appolonius.
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ʿABD-AL-MALEKĪ
P. Oberling
a Lek tribe of Māzandarān.
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ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN B. ʿABDALLĀH
R. D. McChesney
generally reckoned as the eleventh khan of the Shaibanid (Abu’l-Ḵayrī) dynasty of Māvarāʾ al-Nahr and Balḵ.
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ʿABD-AL-MONʿEM ʿĀMELĪ
D. Pingree
10th/16th century astronomer.
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ʿABD-AL-NABĪ
K. A. Nizami
Mughal traditionist, for a time much esteemed by the emperor Akbar (16th century).
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ʿABD-AL-NABĪ AḤMADNAGARĪ
M. Baqir
12th/18th century Gujerati scholar.