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EBN BĀBAWAYH (2)
Martin McDermott
(Bābūya), SHAIKH ṢADŪQ ABŪ JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD b. Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī... Mūsā Qomī (b. Qom after 305, probably about 311/923; d. Ray, 381/991), author of one of the authoritative four books of Imami Shiʿite Hadith, Man lā yaḥżoroho’l-faqīh.
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EBN BĀKŪYA
Cross-Reference
See BĀBĀ KŪHĪ.
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EBN BAQIYA
C. E. Bosworth
called Naṣir-al-Dawla and Nāṣeḥ "Counselor,” vizier of the Buyids in Iraq, b. 314/926, d. 367/978.
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EBN BAṬṬŪṬA
Charles F. Beckingham
(1304-1368/9), the most famous Muslim traveler.
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EBN BAZZĀZ
Roger Savory
author of the Ṣafwat al-ṣafāʾ, a biography of Shaikh Ṣafī-al-Dīn Esḥāq Ardabīlī (d. 935/1334), founder of the Safavid order of Sufis and the eponym of the Safavid dynasty.
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EBN BĪBĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN
Tahsin Yazici
b. Moḥammad b. ʿAlī Jaʿfarī Roḡadī, Persian historian and man of letters.
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EBN BOḴTĪŠŪʿ
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
prominent family of physicians of Gondēšāpūr at court during the early ʿAbbasid period.
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EBN DĀʿĪ RĀZĪ, ABŪ TORĀB ṢAFĪ-AL-DĪN MORTAŻĀ
Marco Salami
b. Dāʿī b. Qāsem Rāzī Ḥosaynī (or Ḥasanī), known as ʿAlam-al-Hodā (d. after 1132), Imami traditionist and author of a heresiography in Persian.
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EBN DĀROST, MAJD-AL-WOZARĀʾ MOḤAMMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Manṣūr (d. Ahvā, 1074), vizier to the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qāʾem from 9 May 1061 to 9 December 1062.
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EBN DĀROST, TĀJ-AL-MOLK ABU’L-ḠANĀʾEM MARZBĀN
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Ḵosrow-Fīrūz Šīrāzī (1046-93), last vizier of the Great Saljuq Sultan Malekšāh.
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EBN DAYṢĀN
Cross-Reference
See BARDESANES.
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EBN DOROSTAWAYH, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALL
Seeger A. Bonebakker
b. Jaʿfar b. Dorostawayh b. Marzbān (b. Fasā, 871; d. Baghdad, May 958), grammarian and lexicographer of Persian origin.
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EBN ELYĀS, MANṢŪR
Gul A. Russell
(fl. late 14th-early 15th cent.), author of two extant Persian works: a medical compilation titled Kefāya-ye mojāhedīya and an illustrated anatomy text known as the Tašrīḥ-e manṣūrī. The five full-page drawings, corresponding to the five treatises in the Tašrīḥ, are unique in the history of Islamic medicine.
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EBN ESFANDĪĀR, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Charles Melville
b. Ḥasan, historian, probably from Āmol, who flourished around the turn of the 13th century.
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EBN FAHD ḤELLĪ, ABU’L-ʿABBĀS JAMĀL-AL-DĪN AḤMAD
Marco Salami
b. Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad (1355-1437), Imami scholar and jurist.
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EBN FARĪḠŪN
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E FARĪḠŪN.
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EBN FAŻLĀN
Cross-Reference
See AḤMAD B. FAŻLĀN.
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EBN FONDOQ
Cross-Reference
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EBN FŪLĀD
C. Edmund Bosworth
(or Ebn Pūlād), military adventurer, probably of Daylamī origin, active in northern Persia during the Buyid period (early 11th century) and typical of the soldiers of fortune characterizing the “Daylamī intermezzo” of medieval Persian history.
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EBN FŪRAK
Forthcoming
EBN FŪRAK. See Supplement.
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EBN ḤAWQAL, ABU’L-QĀSEM MOḤAMMAD
Anas B. Khalidov
b. ʿAlī Naṣībī, traveler and geographer of the 10th century.
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EBN ḤAWŠAB, ABU’L-QĀSEM ḤASAN
Heinz Halm
b. Faraj (or Faraḥ) b. Ḥawšab b. Zāḏān Najjār Kūfī, known also as Manṣūr al-Yaman (d. 914), Ismaʿili dāʿī and founder of the Ismaʿili community in northern Yemen.
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EBN HENDŪ, ABU’L-FARAJ ʿALĪ
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
b. Ḥosayn, also known as Ostāḏ (b. in Ṭabarestān, no later than the early 960s; d. in or after 1031), author of, inter alia, propaedeutic epistles on philosophy and medicine and of a gnomology of Greek wisdom, and generally renowned as a litterateur.
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EBN ḤOSĀM ḴᵛĀFĪ, MOḤAMMAD
Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
or Ḵūsfī, a poet of the 15th century.
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EBN ḴAFĪF
Forthcoming
See Supplement.
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EBN ḴĀLAWAYH, ABŪ ʿABD-ALLĀH ḤOSAYN
Michael G. Carter
b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamdān Hamaḏānī, philologist and Koran scholar.
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EBN ḴALDŪN, ABŪ ZAYD ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
Franz Rosenthal
b. Moḥammad (b. 27 May 1332; d. 17 March 1406), the historian famous for the general theory of history and civilization brilliantly expounded in his Moqaddema.
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EBN ḴALLĀD, ABŪ ʿALĪ MOḤAMMAD BAṢRĪ
Daniel Gimaret
(d. 2nd half of 10th century), Muʿtazilite theologian of the so-called “school of Baṣra,” partisan of the ideas of Abū Hāšem Jobbāʾī.
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EBN ḴAMMĀR, ABU’L-ḴAYR ḤASAN
W. Montgomery Watt
b. Savār (or Sovār), b. Bābā b. Bahrām (or Behnām) Ḵᵛārazmī, philosopher.
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EBN ḴĀQĀN, FATḤ
Cross-Reference
See FATḤ B. ḴĀQĀN.
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EBN ḴARMĪL
C. Edmund Bosworth
early 13th century military commander of the Ghurids, and connected, according to Jūzjānī, with the district of Gorzevān on the headwaters of the Morḡāb in the province of Gūzgān in northern Afghanistan.
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EBN ḴĀZEM
Cross-Reference
See ʿABDALLĀH B. ḴĀZEM.
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EBN ḴORDĀḎBEH, ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. ʿAbd-Allāh (fl. 9th century), author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.
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EBN MAFANA
C. E. Bosworth
vizier to the Buyid ruler of Fars and Khuzestan.
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EBN MĀHĀN
Cross-Reference
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EBN MĀJŪR
Cross-Reference
See BANŪ AMĀJŪR.
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EBN MĀKŪLA
Cross-Reference
See ĀL-E MĀKŪLĀ.
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EBN MARDAWAYH, AHMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Mūsā b. Mardawayh b. Fūrak Eṣfahānī (935-1019), scholar of Isfahan in the Buyid period, who wrote in the fields of tradition, tafsīr (Koranic exegsis), history, and geography.
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EBN MARZOBĀN, ABŪ AḤMAD ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
D. M. Dunlop
b. ʿAlī b. Marzbān Ṭabīb Marzbānī (d. Tostar, February-March 1006), administrative official under the Buyids.
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EBN MATTAWAYH, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ḤASAN
Martin McDermott
b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh, Muʿtazilite theologian of the Basran school, a student of Qāżī ʿAbd-al-Jabbār (d. 1025).
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EBN MESKAWAYH
Cross-Reference
Persian chancery official and treasury clerk of the Buyid period, boon companion, litterateur and accomplished writer in Arabic on a variety of topics, including history, theology, philosophy and medicine (d. 421/1030). See MESKAWAYH, ABU ʿALI AḤMAD.
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EBN MOʿĀVĪA
Cross-Reference
See ʿABDALLAH B. MOʿĀVĪA.
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EBN MOBĀRAK
Cross-Reference
See ʿABDALLAH B. MOBĀRAK.
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EBN MOHALHEL
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ.
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EBN MOLJAM
Forthcoming
Ebn Moljam will be discussed in a future online entry.
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EBN MORSAL, LAYṮ
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Fażl, a client (mawlā) and governor of Sīstān 815-19.
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EBN MOSTAWFĪ, ABU’L-BARAKĀT ŠARAF-AL-DĪN MOBĀRAK
Ihsan Abbas
b. Aḥmad b. Mobārak Erbelī (1168-1239), historian of Erbel.
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EBN MOṬARREF
Cross-Reference
See ABU’L-WAZĪR MARVAZĪ.
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EBN NAWBAḴT, ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM
Cross-Reference
See NAWBAḴTĪ FAMILY.
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EBN NAWBAḴT, ABŪ SAHL
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ SAHL NAWBAḴTĪ.