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ʿABBĀSĪ RABENJANĪ
Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh
10th century Samanid poet.
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ʿABBĀSĪ, ŠAYḴ
R. Skelton
Apart from an apparently early work in the standard Isfahan style of the second quarter of the 17th century (Cristie’s 10 July 1975, lot 197), Šayḵ ʿAbbāsī departed from the established conventions of Safavid painting and embarked upon an eclectic manner in which European and Indian elements played an important role.
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ʿABBASID CALIPHATE
C. E. Bosworth
the third dynasty of caliphs who built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphs in Damascus.
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ABD, ABDĪH
Cross-Reference
“marvel, wonder” in Middle Persian. See MIRACLES i. In Ancient Iranian Tradition.
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ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪ BAḤR-AL-ʿOLŪM
F. Robinson
A leading Indian theologian of the Ḥanafī school (18th century).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪ BĪRJANDĪ
D. Pingree
(or BARJANDĪ) Islamic astronomer, said to have died in 934/1527-28.
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ʿABD-AL-ʿALĪM NAṢRALLĀḤ KHAN
Hameed ud-Din
“QAMAR,” government official, historian, biographer, translator, and grammarian in British India (19th century).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAẒĪM AL-ḤASANĪ
W. Madelung
Shiʿite ascetic and transmitter buried in the main sanctuary of Ray (9th century).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. ʿABD-AL-VAHHĀB
D. Duda
painter of the Safavid period employed in the royal workshops of Tabriz who lost his nose under mysterious and debated circumstances. According to the historian Qāẓī Aḥmad, both father and son were excellent painters from Kāšān.
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ B. NAḎR MOḤAMMAD
M. H. Siddiqi
Toghay-Timurid (Janid) dynast of the Uzbeks in Bukhara (r. 1647-80).
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ʿABD-al-ʿAZĪZ ḤEKĪMBĀŠĪ
T. Yazici
Ottoman physician and translator (d. 1782-83).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ MOḤADDEṮ DEHLAVĪ
Azduddin Khan
Sunni theologian and mystic (1746-1824).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ QARA ČELEBIZĀDA
T. Yazici
Ottoman historian and translator (1591-1658).
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ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ SOLṬĀN
Yu. Bregel
Shaibanid ruler of Bokhara (d. 1550).
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ʿABD-AL-BAHĀʾ
A. Bausani, D. MacEoin
epithet assumed by ʿAbbās Effendi, the eldest son of Bahāʾallāh, founder of the Bahaʾi movement. The epithet means “servant of the glory of God” or “servant of Bahāʾallāh.”
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ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ LAʿLĪZĀDA
T. Yazici
(d. 1746 A.D.), Ottoman scholar, son of Shaikh Laʿlī Meḥmed, the grandson of Sarı ʿAbdallāh, a commentator on the Maṯnavī.
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ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ NAHĀVANDĪ
Hameed ud-Din
Mughal noble and biographer.
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ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ TABRĪZĪ
ʿAbd-al-ʿAlī Kārang
religious scholar and notable of Azerbaijan (d. 1039/1629-30).
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ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ YAZDĪ
P. P. Soucek
Safavid official and poet skilled in calligraphy, killed at the battle of Čālderān in Raǰab 920/August 1514.
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ʿABD-AL-BARĪ
F. Robinson
early 20th century Indian scholar and pīr of the Ferangī Maḥal family.