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AḤMAD ʿALĪ HĀŠEMĪ SANDĪLAVĪ
S. S. Alvi
Indo-Persian litterateur (b. 1162/1748-49 in Sandila, a town near Lucknow; d. after 1224/1809).
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AḤMAD B. ʿABDALLĀH
H. Halm
(3rd/9th century), son of the supposed founder of Ismaʿili doctrine and grandfather of the first Fatimid caliph, Mahdī.
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AḤMAD B. ASAD
C. E. Bosworth
(d. 250/864), early member of the Samanid family and governor of Farḡāna under the ʿAbbasids and Taherids.
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AḤMAD B. AYYŪB
A. A. Kalantarian
7th-8th/13th-14th Azerbaijani architect, one of the best representatives of the architectural school of Naḵǰavān.
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AḤMAD B. BAHBAL
Hameed ud-Din
Mughal historian and author of a Persian work, Maʿdan-e aḵbār-e Aḥmadī, also known as Maʿdan-e aḵbār-e Jahāngīrī.
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AḤMAD B. FAŻLĀN
C. E. Bosworth
author of an extremely important travel narrative written after he had been a member of an embassy in the early 4th/10th century from the ʿAbbasid caliphate to the ruler of the Bulghars on the middle Volga in Russia.
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AḤMAD B. ḤOSAYN
İ. Aka
historian of the 9th/15th century born in Yazd, author of the Tārīḵ-e ǰadīd-e Yazd.
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AḤMAD B. JAʿFAR
D. M. Dunlop
poet, man of letters, musician, wit, and bon vivant at the court of several ʿAbbasid caliphs, hence sometimes called al-Nadīm.
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AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD
C. E. Bosworth
(r. 311-52/923-63), amir in Sīstān of the Saffarid dynasty (that part of it sometimes called “the second Saffarid dynasty”).
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AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. ṬĀHER
C. E. Bosworth
governor in Ḵᵛārazm and son of the last Tahirid governor in Khorasan.
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AḤMAD B. NEẒĀM-AL-MOLK
C. E. Bosworth
(d. 1149-50), son of the well-known Saljuq vizier (d. 485/1092) and himself vizier for the Great Saljuqs and then for the ʿAbbasid caliphs.
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AḤMAD B. ʿOMAR B. SORAYJ
T. Nagel
Shafeʿite author from Shiraz (249/863-306/918-19)/
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AḤMAD B. QODĀM
C. E. Bosworth
a military adventurer who temporarily held power in Sīstān during the confused years following the collapse of the first Saffarid amirate and the military empire of ʿAmr b. Layṯ in 287/900.
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AḤMAD B. SAHL B. HĀŠEM
C. E. Bosworth
governor in Khorasan during the confused struggles for supremacy there between the Saffarids, Samanids, and various military adventures in the late 3rd/9th and early 4th/10th century, d. 307/920.
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AḤMAD ČARMPŪŠ
S. H. Askari
(ČERAMPŌŠ), Sohravardī poet-saint of 14th century Bihar (d. 26 Ṣafar 755/22 March 1354).
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AḤMAD HERAVĪ
D. Pingree
one of the many eminent astronomers employed by the Buyids in the 4th/10th century.
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AḤMAD INALTIGIN
C. E. Bosworth
Turkish commander and rebel under the early Ghaznavid sultan Masʿūd I (421-32/1030-41), d. 426/1035.
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AḤMAD-E JĀM
H. Moayyad
a Conservative Sufi with unreserved loyalty to the Šarīʿa (1049 -1141).
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AḤMAD-E ḴĀNI
F. Shakely
(1061-1119/1650-1707), a distinguished Kurdish poet, mystic, scholar, and intellectual who is regarded by some as the founder of Kurdish nationalism.
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AḤMAD KĀSĀNĪ
J. Fletcher
(1461-62—1542-43), known as MAḴDŪM-E AʿẒAM, Sufi, author of about thirty religious treatises, political activist, and founding ancestor of two important saintly lineages of Naqšbandī ḵᵛāǰagān.