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ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ HAMADĀNĪ
L. A. Giffen
saintly specialist in the science of Koran readings (qerāʾāt) and Tradition, born in Hamadān in 488/1090 and died in 569/1173.
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ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ŠOŠTARĪ
M. Zand
early Persian poet and prosodist (the earliest known from the Šoštar area).
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ABU’L-ʿAMAYṮAL
I. Abbas
Tahirid court poet.
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ABU’L-ʿANBAS ṢAYMARĪ
D. Pingree
astrologer and author, born at Kūfa, 213/828; died 275/889.
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ABU’L-BAQĀʾ
H. Algar
author of Jāmeʿ al-maqāmāt on the life of the Naqšbandī saint, Mawlānā Ḵᵛāǰagī Kāsānī (d. 949/1542), written in 1028/1618.
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ABU’L-BARAKĀT BAḠDĀDĪ
W. Madelung
5th-6th/11th-12th century physician and philosopher of Jewish origin, born in Balad, a town on the Tigris above Mosul.
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ABU’L-BARAKĀT LĀHŪRĪ
M. U. Memon
Indo-Persian poet.
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ABU’L-FARAJ BANNĀʾ
O. Watson
a potter known through a single signed piece reputedly found in Sāva.
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ABU’L-FARAJ ʿEBRĪ
Cross-Reference
(b. Malaṭīa, 1225; d. Marāḡa, 1286), Syriac historian and polymath, also known as Bar Hebraeus. See EBN AL-ʿEBRĪ, ABU’L-FARAJ.
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ABU’L-FARAJ EṢFAHĀNĪ
K. Abū Deeb
Author of the Ketāb al-aḡānī.