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ABU’L-FAŻL ABŪ MOḤAMMAD
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ABU’L-FAŻL ʿALLĀMĪ
R. M. Eaton
historian, officer, chief secretary, and confidant of the Mughal emperor Akbar I.
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ABU’L-FAŻL GOLPĀYEGĀNĪ
M. Momen
prominent Bahaʾi scholar and apologist.
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ABU’L-FAŻL ḴOTTALĪ
H. Algar
(d. 453/1061?), preceptor of Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Hoǰvīrī (d. 465/1073), the author of the celebrated Persian treatise on Sufism, Kašf al-maḥǰūb.
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ABU’L-FAŻL MĪKĀL
S. ʿA. Anwār
author and poet, d. 436/1045.
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ABU’L-FAŻL SĀVAJĪ
P. P. Soucek
(1248-1312/1832-95), a scholar, calligrapher, poet, and physician active in Qajar court circles.
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ABU’L-FAŻL ŠĪRĀZĪ
L. A. Giffen
vizier in the time of the Buyids, patron of the Shiʿi Arab poet Ebn al-Ḥaǰǰāǰ, born in Shiraz in 303/915, died at Kūfa in 362/973.
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ABU’L-FAŻL TĀJ-AL-DĪN
C. E. Bosworth
amir of the line of later Saffarids, sometimes called the third dynasty of Saffarids and, by a historian like Jūzǰānī, the “Maleks of Nīmrūz and Seǰestān.”
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ABU’L-FOTŪḤ EṢFAHĀNĪ
J. A. Wakin
known also by his laqab Montaǰab-al-dīn (or in some sources Montaḵab-al-dīn), a well-known Shafeʿite scholar and traditionist.
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ABU’L-FOTŪḤ RĀZĪ
M. J. McDermott
Shiʿite commentator on the Koran who lived in the first half of the 6th/12th century.
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ABU’L-ḠĀZĪ BAHĀDOR KHAN
B. Spuler
khan of Ḵīva (r. 1054-74/1644 to 1663-64) and Čaḡatāy historian.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN AHWĀZĪ
D. Pingree
astronomer, fl. after ca. 215/830.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN EṢFAHĀNĪ
H. Algar
(1284-1365/1867-1946), an Iranian moǰtahed who was a leading religious authority in the Shiʿite world for more than thirty years.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN ESFARĀʾĪNĪ
C. E. Bosworth
first vizier for the Ghaznavid sultan Maḥmūd (r. 388-421/998-1030).
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ABU’L-ḤASAN GOLESTĀNA
R. D. McChesney
vizier of Kermānšāhān and chronicler of post-Afsharid Iran.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN HERAVĪ
D. Pingree
medieval mathematician.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN JORJĀNĪ
M. Dabīrsīāqī
9th-century Shafeʿite jurist, poet, and man of letters.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN ḴARAQĀNĪ
H. Landolt
(352-425/963-1033), Sufi shaikh of Ḵaraqān, some 20 km north of Basṭām in Khorasan.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN KHAN ARDALĀN
Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī
(b. 1279/1862-63), government official under the late Qajars.
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ABU’L-ḤASAN KHAN ḠAFFĀRĪ
B. W. Robinson
In 1842 an oil portrait of Moḥammad Shah secured him a position as a court artist. His style by now was formed; in oil painting it was refinement on that of Mehr-ʿAlī; but his miniature paintings and portraits show originality, naturalism, and technical perfection.
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