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• ABŪ ʿOṮMĀN RABĪʿA

  L. A. Giffen

  often called RABĪʿAT-AL-RAʾY, important lawyer of the ancient school of Medina and transmitter of Traditions from Companions of the Prophet, died 136/753. 

• ABŪ RAJĀʾ ḠAZNAVĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ḠAZNAVĪ, ABŪ RAJĀʾ.

• ABŪ RAŠĪD NĪSĀBŪRĪ

  D. W. Madelung

  Muʿtazilite scholar. He was probably born not later than 360/970.

• ABŪ SAʿD TOSTARĪ

  S. D. Goitein

  businessman and quasi-vizier in Fatimid Egypt, d. 439/1047.

• ABŪ SAHL ḤAMDOWĪ

  Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

  Ghaznavid official of the 4th-5th/11th century.

• ABŪ SAHL ḴOJANDĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

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

• ABŪ SAHL KŪHĪ

  D. Pingree

  (also QŪHĪ), mathematician and astronomer.

• ABŪ SAHL LAKŠAN

  Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

   official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd (388-421/998-1030) and Masʿūd (421-32/1031-41).

• ABŪ SAHL NAWBAḴT

  D. Pingree

  2nd/8th century astrologer and author.  

• ABŪ SAHL NAWBAḴTĪ

  W. Madelung

  a prominent member of the Nawbaḵtī family and noted Imamite leader and scholar.

• ABŪ SAHL ZŪZANĪ

  Ḡ. Ḥ. Yūsofī

  courtier and official under the Ghaznavid amirs Maḥmūd (388-421/998-1030) and Masʿūd (421-32/1031-41), d. ca. 440-50/1050-59.

• ABŪ SAʿĪD ABI’L-ḴAYR

  G. Böwering

  famous Iranian mystic, born 1 Moḥarram 357/7 December 967 at Mēhana, a small town in Khorasan, about fifty miles west of Saraḵs, and died there 4 Šaʿbān 440/12 January 1049.

• ABŪ SAʿĪD BAHĀDOR KHAN

  P. Jackson

  ninth Il-khan of Iran, the son and successor of Öljeitü (Ūlǰāytū).

• ABŪ SAʿĪD JANNĀBĪ

  W. Madelung

  founder of the Qarmaṭī state in Baḥrain (b. between 230/845, and 240/855, d. 300/913 or 301/913-14). 

• ABŪ SAʿĪD KHAN

  Y. Bregel

  cousin of Šaybānī Khan and great-grandson of Uluḡ Beg in the female line, khan of the Uzbeks of Transoxania (936-40/1530-33).  

• ABŪ ŠAKŪR BALḴĪ

  G. Lazard

  poet of the Samanid period.

• ABŪ SALAMA ḴALLĀL

  R. W. Bulliet

  head of the Hashemite propaganda organization (daʿwa) that sparkled the ʿAbbasid revolution and first vizier of the new dynasty. 

• ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR

  C. E. Bosworth

  Samanid prince, the cousin of the amir Aḥmad b. Esmāʿīl (295-301/907-14) and uncle of his successor Naṣr b. Aḥmad (301-31/914-43).

• ABŪ ṢĀLEḤ MANṢŪR (I) NŪḤ

  C. E. Bosworth

  (350-66/961-76), Samanid ruler in Transoxania and Khorasan and successor of his brother ʿAbd-al-Malek after the latter’s death in Šawwāl, 350/November, 961.

• ABŪ SALĪK GORGĀNĪ

  M. N. Osmanov

  Persian poet, contemporary of ʿAmr b. Layṯ the Saffarid (265-88/879-901). 

• ABŪ ŠOʿAYB HERAVĪ

  J. W. Clinton

  or BŪ ŠOʿAYB as he is more commonly known, one of the many poets of the Samanid court which has survived virtually in name only.

• ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ EṢFAHĀNĪ

  H. Halm

  (434-500/1042-43 to 1106, Shafeʿite jurist. 

• ABŪ ŠOJĀʿ FANĀ ḴOSROW

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿAŻOD-AL-DAWLA.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER

  O. Watson

  Far from the works of the son following close upon those of the father, the gap between known works of the first generation is twenty-eight years, and between the second generations, forty-two years. Late marriage and long apprenticeships may be the explanation. 

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• ABŪ ṬĀHER B. MOḤAMMAD

  Cross-Reference

  See ATĀBAKĀN-E LORESTĀN.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER ḴĀTŪNĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  officer, famous poet, and author in the reign of the Saljuq Sultan Moḥammad b. Malekšāh (498-511/1105-18).

• ABŪ TAHER ḴOSRAVĀNĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a poet of the Samanid period.

• ABŪ ṬĀHER SAMARQANDĪ

  M. Zand

  author of a book named Ṯamarīya (first half of the 13th/19th century).

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB ḤOSAYNĪ

  Hameed ud-Din

  Mughal scholar chiefly famous for his alleged discovery of Malfūẓāt-e Tīmūrī or Wāqeʿāt-e Tīmūrī, an autobiographical account of Tīmūr from the 7th to the 74th year of his life.

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB KALĪM

  Cross-Reference

  (b. ca. 1581-85; d. 1651), Persian poet and one of the leading exponents of the “Indian style” (sabk-e hendi). See KALĪM KĀŠĀNI.

• ABŪ ṬĀLEB KHAN LANDANĪ

  M. Baqir

  Official and author in British India (18th-19th century).

• ABU ṬĀLEB TABRIZI

  ʿA. Kārang

  Poet and physician whose pen name was Ṭāleb (d. 1015/1606-07).

• ABŪ TORĀB NAḴŠABĪ

  B. Radtke

  noted 3rd/9th century ascetic.

• ABŪ TORĀB WALĪ

  S. Moinul Haq

  noble in the service of Akbar and author of Tārīḵ-e Goǰrāt, a short history of that province from the reign of Bahādor Shah (932-43/1526-36), with an account of his wars against Homāyūn, through Akbar’s conquest and up to 992/1584.

• ABU YAʿQUB HAMADĀNI

  H. Algar

  Important figure in the history of Iranian and Central Asian Sufism, largely neglected by both Iranian and Western scholarship (440-535/1048-49 to 1140).

• ABŪ YAʿQŪB JORJĀNĪ

  J. van Ess

  disciple of Ebn Karrām (d. 255/869).  

• ABŪ YAʿQŪB SEJESTĀNĪ

  P. E. Walker

  one of the most important of the early Ismaʿili dāʿīs.

• ABU YAZĪD BESṬĀMI

  Cross-Reference

  See BESṬĀMĪ, BĀYAZĪD.

• ABŪ YŪSOF QAZVINI

  W. Madelung

  Muʿtazilite scholar and author of an immense Koran commentary, born Šaʿbān, 393/June, 1003 (according to another report 391) in Qazvīn.

• ABŪ ZAYD B. MOḤAMMAD KĀŠĀNĪ

  O. Watson

  perhaps the single most important luster potter of Kāšān known to us. More signed and dated works (from 587/1191 to 616/1219) are known by him than by any other potter, and his signature occurs on a greater variety of wares, including both tiles and vessels.

• ABŪ ZAYD BALḴĪ

  W. M. Watt

  noted scholar in both Islamic and philosophical disciplines, but now known chiefly as a geographer. He was born in the village of Šāmestīān, near Balḵ in Khorasan, ca. 235/849 and died there in Ḏu’l-qaʿda, 322/October, 934. 

• ABŪ ZAYD KĀŠĀNĪ

  O. Watson

  a potter who signed a ceramic bowl in the enameled (mīnāʾī) technique dated 4 Moḥarram 582/26 March 1186.

• ABŪ ZAYN KAḤḤĀL

  L. Richter-Bernburg

  author of the medical text Šarāyeṭ-e ǰarrāḥī; its dedication to the Timurid Šāhroḵ (r. 807-50/1404-47) provides the only context for his life.

• ABU’L-QĀSEM EBRĀHĪM ḤAṢĪRĪ

  Cross-Reference

  Shafeʿite faqīh (jurist) and Ghaznavid official, d. 424/1033. See ABŪ BAKR ḤAṢĪRĪ.

• ABŪZAYDĀBĀD

  E. Yarshater

  Oasis village of the province of Kāšān, called Būzābād for short and Bīzeva in the local dialect. It is situated 30 km to the east and slightly to the south of the city of Kāšān.

• ABŪZAYDĀBĀDĪ

  E. Yarshater

  (Būzābādī for short), a variety of the local dialects of Kāšān province, spoken in the village of Abūzaydābād and its farms, and belonging to the Central or Median group of Iranian dialects.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS ʿANBARĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿANBARĪ.

• ABU’L-ʿABBĀS MARVAZĪ

  Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh

  Sufi, jurist, and traditionist, one of the first poets to write in New Persian. 

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ ʿAṬĀʾ

  C. E. Bosworth

  secretary and poet of the Ghaznavid period, d. 491/1098.

• ABU’L-ʿALĀʾ GANJAVĪ

  Ż. Sajjādi

  6th/12th century poet at the court of Ḵāqān Faḵr-al-dīn Manūčehr Šervānšāh.