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• ʿABDALLĀH B. ŠĀKER

  D. Pingree

  Expert in geometry (d. 1174-75).

• ʿABDALLĀH B. ṬĀHER

  C. E. Bosworth

  Governor of Khorasan (9th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH BAYĀNĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABDALLĀH MORVĀRĪD.

• ʿABDALLĀH BEHBAHĀNĪ

  H. Algar

  Theologian, prominent leader of the constitutional movement (1840-1910).

• ʿABDALLĀH BOḴĀRĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Paintings signed by ʿAbdallāh are of two types: compositions showing strong influence from Herat painting of the late 15th and early 16th centuries and studies of couples, often in a garden setting, a theme which appears to have been especially popular in Bokhara.

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• ʿABDALLĀH HERAVĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Calligrapher active in Herat, Samarqand, and Mashad (mid-15th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH ḤOSAYNĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Scribe and poet in the service of the Mughal emperors Akbar and Jahāngīr (17th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH KABRĪ

  D. Pingree

  Mathematician (d. 1083-84).

• ʿABDALLĀH KHAN

  B. W. Robinson

  Court painter (18th-19th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH KHAN B. ESKANDAR

  Yu. Bregel

  Šaybānīd ruler of Transoxania (d. 1598).

• ʿABDALLĀH KHAN UZBEK

  M. H. Siddiqi

  Mughal noble and general and also briefly an autonomous ruler (10th/16th century).

• ʿABDALLĀH MĀZANDARĀNĪ, SHAIKH

  H. Algar

  Theologian and supporter of the constitutional movement (1840-1912).

• ʿABDALLĀH MĪRZĀ DĀRĀ

  Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī

  Son of Fatḥ-ʿAlī Shah and governor of Ḵamsa province (1796-1846).

• ʿABDALLĀH MORVĀRĪD

  P. P. Soucek

  (d. 1516), Timurid court official, poet, scribe, and musician.

• ʿABDALLĀH PAŠA KÖPRÜLÜZĀDE

  M. Kohbach

  Ottoman statesman and commander-in-chief (d. 1735).

• ʿABDALLĀH ṢAYRAFĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Dūst Moḥammad claims that the traditions of Khorasani calligraphy in the nasḵ script are derived from the writing of ʿAbdallāh Ṣayrafī, with Jaʿfar Tabrīzī acting perhaps as the transmitter of the tradition. ʿAbdallāh achieved his greatest fame as a designer of architectural inscriptions.

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• ʿABDALLĀH ŠĪRĀZĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  Qāżī Aḥmad praises ʿAbdallāh’s skill in lacquer painting (rang o rowḡan). This technique was widely used in the decoration of bookbindings during the 16th century, and the examination of surviving bindings may lead to the discovery of further works by ʿAbdallāh.

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• ʿABDALLĀH, MĪRZĀ

  M. Caton

  (ca. 1843-1918), court musician and master of the setār and tār.

• ʿABDALLĀH, QAVĀM-AL-DĪN

  T. Kuroyanagi

  14th century theologian and faqīh of Shiraz (d. 772/1370).

• ʿABDALLĀH, ŠĀH

  K. A. Nizami

  (d. 1485), Persian Sufi who introduced the Šaṭṭārī order into India.

• ʿABDALLĀH, ṢĀRĪ

  T. Yazici

  (1584-1660), Ottoman scholar, mystic, poet, and commentator of Rūmī.

• ʿABDĀN B. AL-RABĪṬ

  W. Madelung

  early Ismaʿili missionary (dāʿī).

• ʿABDĪ

  T. Yazici

  pen name of ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN PASHA, Ottoman official and historian (d. 1692).

• ʿABDĪ BOḴĀRĀʾĪ

  M. Zand

  (d. 1921-22), Tajik taḏkeranevīs (biographer) and poet.

• ʿABDĪ NĪŠĀPŪRĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  16th-century calligrapher and poet.

• ʿABDĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī and B. Fragner

  (1513-80), poet.

• ABDĪH UD SAHĪGĪH Ī SAGASTĀN

  A. Tafażżolī

  (“The wonder and remarkability of Sagastān”), short Pahlavi treatise.

• ʿĀBEDĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  a landowner (dehqān) of Transoxania (12th century).

• ĀBƎRƎT

  W. W. Malandra

  one of the eight Zoroastrian priests of the yasna ritual.

• ĀBEŠ ḴĀTŪN

  B. Spuler

   Salghurid ruler of Fārs (1263-84), daughter of Atābeg Saʿd II.

• ABGAR

  J. B. Segal

  dynasty of Edessa, 2nd century B.C. to 3rd century A.D.

• ABHAR

  C. E. Bosworth

  a small town in the Qazvīn district.

• ʿABHAR AL-ʿĀŠEQĪN

  H. Corbin

  work of the Persian mystic Rūzbehān Baqlī Šīrāzī (1128-1209).

• ABHARĪ, ABŪ BAKR

  B. Reinert

  Sufi of Persian ʿErāq (d. 941-42).

• ABHARĪ, AMĪN-AL-DĪN

  D. Pingree

   mathematician, said to have died in 1332-33.

• ABHARĪ, AṮĪR-AL-DĪN

  G. C. Anawati

  (d. 1264), logician, mathematician, and astronomer.

• ABHARĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier of the last two Great Saljuq sultans in western Persia.

• ABHARĪ, MAḴDŪM

  Hameed ud-Din

  16th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ

  E. Ehlers

  Persian term for those agricultural lands which are irrigated.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  8th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ SAʿĪD

  M. M. Mazzaoui

  11th-century vizier and man of letters.

• ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  Imami faqīh (jurist) of the 13th century.

• ABIRĀDŪŠ

  M. Dandamayev

  a village in Elam.

• ABIRATTA(Š)

  M. Mayrhofer

  ancient Near Eastern proper name said to be of (Indo-)Aryan origin, by comparison with Vedic ratha, Avestan raθa “chariot.” This analysis, however, remains uncertain.

• ABĪVARD

  C. E. Bosworth

   a town in medieval northern Khorasan.

• ABĪVARDĪ, ABU’L-MOẒAFFAR

  L. A. Giffen

  poet, historian, and writer on genealogy (d. 1113).

• ABĪVARDĪ, ḤOSĀM-AL-DĪN

  L. A. Giffen

  jurisconsult, mathematician and logician (d. 1413).

• ABJAD

  G. Krotkoff

   “alphabet,” a word formed from the first four letters of the Semitic alphabet.

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• ABJADĪ

  M. Baqir

  Poetical name of MĪR MOḤAMMAD ESMĀʿĪL KHAN, 18th century south-Indian poet of Persian and Urdu.

• ABḴĀZ

  Dzh. Giunashvili

  (also APSUA, APSNI), ethnic group of the Caucasus.