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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. ʿOMAR ṢŪFĪ
P. Kunitzsch
astronomer, especially well versed in knowledge of the fixed stars (10th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. SAMORA
M. G. Morony
Arab general who campaigned in Sīstān (d. 50/670).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. SOYŪNJ
R. D. MacChesney
an Uzbek amir in Balḵ (17th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN ČEŠTĪ
Hameed ud-Din
Mughal saint and biographer (17th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KHAN
Cross-Reference
Emir or ruler of Afghanistan, and member of the Bārakzay tribe of the Dorrāni tribal confederation, who unified the kingdom after the second Anglo-Afghan war (r. 1297-1319/1880-1901). See AFGHANISTAN x. Political History, BĀRAKZI, and DORRĀNI.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN KᵛĀRAZMĪ
P. P. Soucek
calligrapher specializing in nastaʿlīq, active during the middle decades of the 9th/15th century.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SAMARQANDĪ
Y. Bregel
late 19th century secretary (mīrzā). A Tajik, he was a native of Samarqand.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN SARAḴSĪ
I. Abbas
a Hanafite jurist (d. 1047).
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN ŠAYZARĪ
H. H. Biesterfeldt
Syrian author and contemporary of Saladin (d. 589/1193).
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ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD DAYLAMĪ
P. P. Soucek
calligrapher and poet who served the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān (1037-58/1628-58).
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ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD TATTAVĪ
W. M. Thackston
noted lexicographer attached to the court of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahān.
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ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD, ABŪ MANṢŪR
C. E. Bosworth
Ghaznavid sultan, r. 441-44/1050-53.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ
D. Duda
Jahāngīr writes that sixteen miniatures are by Behzād, five by his teacher Mīrak, and one by ʿAbd-al-Razzāq. Earlier investigators did not succeed in establishing convincing attributions of the miniatures to these artists, as they were also puzzled by numerous apocryphal signatures and false identifications attached to the paintings.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ AWRANGĀBĀDĪ
Hameed ud-Din
Mughal official and biographer, chiefly famous as the author of Maʾāṯer al-omarāʾ (18th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ b. AḤMAD b. ḤASAN MEYMANDI
C. E. Bosworth
vizier to the Ghaznavid sultans Mawdud b. Masʿud and ʿAbd-al-Rašid b. Maḥmud, remaining in official service under the latter’s successor Farroḵzād b. Masʿud.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BĀŠTĪNĪ
J. Aubin
First leader of the Sarbadār uprising of Bayhaq (14th-century). His career, like the entire history of the Sarbadārs, is related in a contradictory fashion by the Timurid period chroniclers. With appropriate details, he is pictured as violent and dissolute.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ BEG
J. R. Perry
(1176-1243/1762-63 to 1827-28), literary biographer, poet, and historian of the early Qajar period.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ LĀHĪJĪ
W. Madelung
Theologian and philosopher (and poet under the pen name FAYYĀŻ, 11th/17th century).
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ MAYMANDĪ
C. E. Bosworth
Ghaznavid vizier of the middle years of the 5th/11th century.
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ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ NAYSABŪRĪ
E. Baer
Metalworker of the second half of the 6th/12th century.