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• ʿABD-AL-JALĪL BELGRĀMĪ

  M. Siddiqi

  major 17th/18th century Indo-Muslim litterateur.

• ʿABD-AL-JALĪL RĀZĪ

  W. Madelung

  Emāmī Shiʿite scholar, preacher, and author, b. probably early in the 6th/12th century.

• 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.

• 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.

• ʿABD-AL-KARĪM ʿALAVĪ

  N. H. Zaidi

  early 19th century Indo-Persian historian (d. ca. 1851).

• ʿABD-AL-KARĪM BOḴĀRĪ

  M. Zand

  Bukharan traveler and memorialist (d. after 1830-31).

• ʿABD-AL-KARĪM GAZĪ

  H. Algar

  a respected religious leader of Isfahan (1856-1921).

• ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ

  S. Maqbul Ahmad

  noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns (d. 1784).

• 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).