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ABU’L-MAʿṢŪM MĪRZĀ
D. Duda
Safavid painter, portraitist, draftsman, engraver, and expert in artistic bookbinding and restoring who was extolled by the historian Qāżī Aḥmad (16th century).
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ABU’L-MAṮAL BOḴĀRĪ
J. W. Clinton
(or BOḴĀRĀʾĪ), a poet of the Samanid court.
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ABU’L-MOʾAYYAD BALḴĪ
G. Lazard
An early Persian poet and writer of the Samanid period, whose works have almost entirely disappeared.
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ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR ḴᵛĀFĪ
H. Halm
Shafeʿite jurist and traditionist (d. in Ṭūs in 500/1106) . He was one of the most important students of Emām-al-ḥaramayn Jovaynī.
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ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿABDALLĀH KĀŠĀNĪ
P. P. Soucek
Historian of the reign of the Il-khan Olǰāytū and member of the Abū Ṭāher family of potters (14th century).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ B. ḤASAN
C. E. Bosworth
Vizier to the atabeg of Lorestān Šams-al-dawla Ḡāzī Beg Aydoḡmuš (7th/13th century).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM ʿALĪ B. MOḤAMMAD
R. W. Bulliet
A wealthy dehqān from Sabzavār who was prominent as a founder of madrasas in the second decade of the 5th/11th century.
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ABU’L-QĀSEM EBRĀHĪM SOLṬĀN
EIr
The only son of Kāmrān Mīrza, brother and rival of the Mughal emperor Homāyūn (r. 937-47, 962-63/1530-40, 1555-56).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM ESḤĀQ SAMARQANDI
W. Madelung
Hanafite scholar, Sufi, and judge (qāżī) of Samarqand (9th-10th centuries).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM HĀRŪN
K. A. Luther
Vizier of Atabeg Ozbek b. Moḥammad b. Eldagōz, ruler of Azerbaijan, 607-22/1210-25.
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ABU’L-QĀSEM KAʿBĪ
J. van Ess
Administrator and intellectual of Persian descent, Hanafite jurist and foremost representative of the Moʿtazela in Khorasan (d. Šaʿbān, 319/February, 931).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM KERMĀNĪ
D. Pingree
Author of a Ketāb fī oṣūl al-aḥkām (“Book concerning the foundations of astrological judgments”).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM KHAN EBRĀHĪMĪ
D. MacEoin
Fourth head of the Kermānī branch of the Šayḵī school of Shiʿism (19th-20th centuries).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM KŪFĪ
L. Giffen
Scholar of philosophy, theology, and other disciplines who was at first an Emāmī Shiʿite but later embraced a form of extreme Shiʿism (d. near Šīrāz, 352/962).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM MOḤAMMAD ASLAM
S. Moinul Haq
(pen name MONʿEMĪ), 18th-century historian of Kashmir.
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ABU’L-QĀSEM NĀʾĪNĪ
L. Richter-Bernburg
Major representative (practitioner, instructor, author) of traditional medicine in late Qajar Persia (1245-1322/1829-30 to 1904-05).
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ABU’L-QĀSEM SAʿĪD
D. Duda
calligrapher named in the colophon of a Koran manuscript written in early nasḵī script. In the colophon the scribe calls himself the son or grandson of a pupil of Jawharī. That famous Arab lexicographer (originally from Turkestan) after extensive travels, settled in Nīšāpūr to teach, copy books, and pursue a literary career.
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ABU’L-QĀSEM SOLṬĀN
M. H. Pathan
Bēglār chief of Sind, b. at Nasarpur, Sind, in 969/1562.
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ABU’L-RAYḤĀN BĪRŪNĪ
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Scholar and polymath of the period of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids and one of the two greatest intellectual figures of his time in the eastern lands of the Muslim world (362/973-after 442/1050). See BĪRŪNĪ, ABU’L-RAYḤĀN.
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ABU’L-RAYYĀN EṢFAHĀNĪ
C. Cahen
Buyid vizier (10th century).