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  • ABŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR

    Kh. A. Nizami

    (also known as SHAH BŪ ʿALĪ QALANDAR), Indian poet and saint, d. 725/1324. His mausoleum at Panipat remains a popular center for pilgrimage.

  • ABŪ ʿAMR AL-MĀZOLĪ

    J. van Ess

    Karrāmī theologian, fl. mid-4th/mid-10th century.

  • ABŪ ʿAṬĀ

    G. Tsuge

    one of the twelve modes in the dastgāh system of classical Iranian music; more precisely, it should be called āvāz-e Abū ʿAṭā or naḡma-ye Abū ʿAṭā.

  • ABŪ ʿAWĀNA

    J. A. Wakin

    a Shafeʿite legal scholar and traditionist.

  • ABŪ ʿAWN

    R. W. Bulliet

    a distinguished ʿAbbasid general, twice governor of Egypt and once of Khorasan.

  • ABŪ BAKR AL-WARRĀQ

    B. Reinert

    Sufi shaikh, born in Termeḏ, lived and worked in Balḵ, d. 280/893.

  • ABŪ BAKR B. ABĪ ṢĀLEḤ

    C. E. Bosworth

    vizier of the Ghaznavids in the 5th/11th century.

  • ABŪ BAKR B. PAHLAVĀN

    Cross-Reference

    See ATĀBAKĀN-E ĀḎARBĀYJĀN.

  • ABŪ BAKR B. SAʿD

    B. Spuler

    (623-58/1226-60), member of the Salghurid dynasty, atabeg of Fārs.

  • ABŪ BAKR ḤAṢĪRĪ

    Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

    Shafeʿite faqīh (jurist) and Ghaznavid official, d. 424/1033.

  • ABŪ BAKR KALĀBĀḎĪ

    W. Madelung

    author of the well-known compendium of Sufism al-Taʿarrof le-maḏhab ahl al-taṣawwof.

  • ABŪ BAKR MARVAZĪ

    A. A. Ivanov

    7th/13th century metalworker.

  • ABŪ BAKR NAYSĀBŪRĪ

    M. J. McDermott

    a jurist loosely belonging to the Shafeʿite school.

  • ABŪ BAKR QOHESTĀNĪ

    Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

     fl. 5th/11th century, a courtier and man of letters under the Ghaznavids and Saljuqs; himself a poet, he patronized poetry generously.

  • ABŪ BAKR SAMARQANDĪ

    I. Abbas

    (d. 268/881), a Hanafite jurist about whose life the available sources furnish no information.

  • ABŪ BAKR SARAḴSĪ

    J. W. Clinton

    a follower (but apparently not a contemporary) of Shaikh Abū Saʿīd b. Abi’l-Ḵayr (d. 440/1049).

  • ABŪ BAKR ṬŪSĪ ḤAYDARĪ

    B. Lawrence

    7th/13th century Indo-Muslim saint.

  • ABŪ ḎARR BŪZJĀNĪ

    M. N. Osmanov

    a Persian poet and Sufi shaikh contemporary with Sebüktigin (d. 387/997).

  • ABŪ ḎARR HERAVĪ

    J. A. Wakin

    a traditionist known primarily for his role in the transmission of Boḵārī’s Jāmeʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ.

  • ABŪ DOLAF AL-YANBŪʿĪ

    R. W. Bulliet

    Arab traveler, poet, and frequenter of the Buyid court (ca. mid-4th/10th century).