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EBN NAWBAḴT, ḤASAN B. MŪSĀ
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EBN NOṢRAT, AMIR BAHĀʾ-AL- DĪN BARANDAQ ḴOJANDĪ
Ḏabīḥ-Allāh Ṣafā
(b. 1356; d. ca. 1433), Timurid poet.
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EBN QEBA, ABŪ JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD
Martin McDermott
b. ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān Rāzī (d. Ray, before 931), one of the most prominent and active Imami theologians.
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EBN QOTAYBA, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-ALLĀH
Franz Rosenthal
b. Moslem DĪNAVARĪ, (828-889), important early philologist in the widest sense of the term and author of numerous works on what is known as the “Arab sciences,” including the religious sciences dealing with the Koran and Hadith.
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EBN QŪLAWAYH, ABU’L- QĀSEM JAʿFAR
Martin McDermott
b. Moḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Mūsāb. Qūlawayh Qomī Baḡdādī (d. Baghdad, 978 or 979), Imami traditionist and jurist, a disciple of Abū Jaʿfar Kolaynī and teacher of Shaikh Mofīd.
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EBN RABĪṬ
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See ʿABDĀN B. AL-RABĪṬ.
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EBN RĀVANDĪ, ABU’l-ḤOSAYN AḤMAD
Josef van Ess
b. Yaḥyā (d. 910?), Muʿtazilite theologian and “heretic” of Ḵorāsānī origin.
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EBN RĒVANDĪ
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See EBN RĀVANDĪ.
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EBN ROSTA, ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. ʿOmar (d. after 903), Persian author of a geographical compendium.
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EBN RŪḤ, ABU’L-QĀSEM ḤOSAYN
Cross-Reference
See ḤOSAYN B. RŪḤ.
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EBN SAʿD, ʿOMAR
Jean Calmard
(k. Kūfa 686), commander of the Omayyad troops at Karbalāʾ.
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EBN ŠĀḎĀN
Wilferd Madelung
family name of two Imami traditionists: Abu’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan (or Ḥosayn) Fāmī Qomī (10th century) and his son.
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EBN ŠĀḎĀN, ABŪ ʿALĪ
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ʿALĪ AḤMAD.
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EBN ŠĀHAWAYH
Wilferd Madelung
a leader and envoy of the Carmatians.
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EBN SAHLĀN SĀVAJĪ, Qāżī ZAYN-AL-DĪN ʿOMAR
Hossein Ziai
(b. Sāva, fl. early 12th century), Persian philosopher and logician.
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EBN ŠAHRĀŠŪB, ABŪ JAʿFAR ZAYN-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
b. ʿALī b. Šahrāšūb b. Abī Naṣr b. Abi’l-Jayš (b. Sārī, Māzandarān; d. Aleppo, 2 September 1192), the most illustrious Imami scholar of the 12th century.
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EBN SĪNA
Cross-Reference
See AVICENNA.
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EBN SORAYJ
Cross-Reference
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EBN ṬABĀṬABĀ, ABU’L-ḤASAN MOḤAMMAD
Ihsan Abbas
b. Aḥmad b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ebrāhīm Eṣfahānī (d. 933), poet and critic.
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EBN ṬĀWŪS, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN ABU’L- FAŻĀʾEL AḤMAD
Wilferd Madelung
b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Moḥammad Ḥasanī, 12th century Imami scholar.
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EBN ṬĀWŪS, RAŻĪ-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ
Etan Kohlberg
b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (b. Ḥella, 21 January 1193; d. Baghdad, 8 August 1266), Imami author, scholar, and bibliophile, called Ḏu’l-ḥasabayn “possessing two distinctions” because he was descended from both Ḥasan and Ḥosayn.
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EBN TORK
Cross-Reference
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EBN TORKA
Cross-Reference
See ṢĀʾN-AL-DĪN ʿALĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ.
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EBN YAMĪN, AMĪR FAḴR-AL-DĪN MAḤMŪD
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
b. Amir Yamīn-al-Dīn Ṭoḡrāʾī, a poet of the 14th century.
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EBN ZĪĀD, ʿOBAYD-ALLĀH
Jean Calmard
(b. ca. 648), Omayyad governor responsible for the death of the Imam Ḥosayn b. ʿAlī.
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EBRĀHĪM
Amnon Netzer
Abraham, the name of the first patriarch of the Hebrew people.
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EBRĀHĪM ʿAKKĀS-BĀŠĪ
Cross-Reference
See ʿAKKĀS-BĀŠĪ.
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EBRĀHĪM AMĪN-AL-SOLṬĀN
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EBRĀHĪM B. ADHAM
EIr
b. Manṣūr b. Yazīd b. Jāber ʿEjlī (d. 777-78), prominent Sufi and ascetic of 8th century.
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EBRĀHĪM B. ALPTIGIN, ABŪ ESḤĀQ
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM.
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EBRĀHĪM B. ESMĀʿĪL
Sheila S. Blair
Safavid architect mentioned on two tiles: one in the dome of the tomb of Shaikh ʿAbd-al-Ṣamad at Naṭanz and another, dated 1661-62, in the south wall of the south ayvān of the congregational mosque at Isfahan.
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EBRĀHĪM B. ḤOSAYN
Cross-Reference
See TAHERIDS.
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EBRĀHĪM B. JARĪR
Munibur Rahman
author of a general history called Tārīḵ-e ebrāhīmī or Tārīḵ-e homāyūnī.
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EBRĀHĪM B. MASʿŪD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Maḥmūd b. Sebüktegīn, Abu’l-Moẓaffar, Ẓahīr-al-Dawla, Rażī-al-Dīn, etc., Ghaznavid sultan (r. 1059-99).
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EBRĀHĪM B. NAṢR
Cross-Reference
See BÖRĪ.
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EBRĀHĪM B. ʿOṮMĀN
Sheila S. Blair
Persian metalworker named in the inscription in Kufic script on the copper door knockers removed from a city gate in medieval Ganja (Soviet Kirovabad, Republic of Azerbaijan) and taken to the convent of Gelatʿi in Imeretiya, just east of Kutaisi in Georgia.
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EBRĀHĪM BEG
Cross-Reference
See ZAYN-AL-ʿĀBEDĪN MARĀḠAʾĪ.
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EBRĀHĪM DEDE ŠĀHEDĪ
Tahsin Yazici
Turkish poet and lexicographer.
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EBRĀHĪM FĀRŪQĪ
Cross-Reference
15th century poet and author of Farhang-e Ebrāhīmi. See under FARHANG-E EBRĀHIMI.
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EBRĀHĪM ĪNĀL
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Yenāl (d. 1059), early Saljuq leader.
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EBRĀHĪM KALĀNTAR ŠĪRĀZĪ
Abbas Amanat
(b. 1745, d. 1800/1801), lord mayor (kalāntar) of Shiraz during the late Zand era, the first grand vizier (ṣadr-e aʿẓam), and a major political figure of the Qajar period.
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EBRĀHĪM ḴALĪL KHAN JAVĀNŠĪR
GEORGE A. BOURNOUTIAN
Khan of Qarābāḡ in late 18th century.
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EBRĀHĪM KHAN AFŠĀR
Cross-Reference
See AFSHARIDS.
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EBRĀHĪM KHAN ḠAFFĀRĪ
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EBRĀHĪM KHAN QĀJĀR
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EBRĀHĪM LODĪ
Cross-Reference
See LODĪ DYNASTY.
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EBRĀHĪM MAWṢELĪ, ABŪ ESḤĀQ
Everett Rowson
the most celebrated musician at the court of Hārūn al-Rašīd and a central figure in the development of the Iraqi school of music under the early ʿAbbasids.
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EBRĀHĪM MĪRZĀ
Marianna S. Simpson
(b. April 1540; d. 23 February 1577), Safavid prince, patron, artist, and poet generally referred to as Solṭān Ebrāhīm Mīrzā.
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EBRĀHĪM NAẒẒĀM
Cross-Reference
See ABŪ ESḤĀQ NAẒẒĀM.
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EBRĀHĪM ṢAḤḤĀF-BĀŠĪ
Cross-reference
See ṢAḤḤĀF-BĀŠĪ.