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EBN AL-ṬEQṬAQĀ, ṢAFĪ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD
Charles Melville
(1262 ?-after 1309 ?), b. ʿAlī b. Ṭabāṭabā, historian and naqīb of the ʿAlids in Ḥella.
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EBN AMĀJŪR
Cross-Reference
See BANŪ AMĀJŪR.
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EBN ʿĀMER
Cross-Reference
See ʿABD-ALLĀH B. ʿĀMER.
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EBN ʿARABŠĀH, ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ʿABBĀS AḤMAD
John E. Woods
(1389-Cairo, 1450), b. Moḥammad … Ḥanafī ʿAjamī, literary scholar and biographer of Tamerlane (Tīmūr).
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EBN AṢDAQ, MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ-MOḤAMMAD
Stephen Lambden
(b. Mašhad 1850; d. Tehran, 1928), prominent Bahai missionary.
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EBN AŠTAR
D.M. Dunlop
(d. at Maskin on the Tigris, in September-October 691), Arab chief and Shiʿite military leader.
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EBN ʿAṬṬĀŠ
Cross-Reference
See ʿAṬṬĀŠ.
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EBN ʿAYYĀŠ, ABŪ ESḤĀQ EBRĀHĪM
Daniel Gimaret
b. Moḥammad Baṣrī, Muʿtazilite theologian (d. late 10th century), member of the so-called “school of Baṣra” and a partisan of the ideas of Abū Hāšem Jobbāʾī.
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EBN BĀBĀ KĀŠĀNĪ (Qāšānī), ABU’L-ʿABBĀS
C. Edmund Bosworth
(d. Marv, 1116-17), Persian writer and boon-companion (nadīm), whose manual for courtiers preserves otherwise lost information on the later Ghaznavids.
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EBN BĀBAWAYH (1)
Sheila S. Blair
(Bābūya), family of Persian builders, luster potters, and tile makers, descended from the Shiʿite scholar Ebn Bābūya al-Ṣadūq (d. 991) and active in the 12th-14th centuries.
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EBN BĀBAWAYH (2)
Martin McDermott
(Bābūya), SHAIKH ṢADŪQ ABŪ JAʿFAR MOḤAMMAD b. Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī... Mūsā Qomī (b. Qom after 305, probably about 311/923; d. Ray, 381/991), author of one of the authoritative four books of Imami Shiʿite Hadith, Man lā yaḥżoroho’l-faqīh.
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EBN BĀKŪYA
Cross-Reference
See BĀBĀ KŪHĪ.
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EBN BAQIYA
C. E. Bosworth
called Naṣir-al-Dawla and Nāṣeḥ "Counselor,” vizier of the Buyids in Iraq, b. 314/926, d. 367/978.
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EBN BAṬṬŪṬA
Charles F. Beckingham
(1304-1368/9), the most famous Muslim traveler.
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EBN BAZZĀZ
Roger Savory
author of the Ṣafwat al-ṣafāʾ, a biography of Shaikh Ṣafī-al-Dīn Esḥāq Ardabīlī (d. 935/1334), founder of the Safavid order of Sufis and the eponym of the Safavid dynasty.
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EBN BĪBĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN
Tahsin Yazici
b. Moḥammad b. ʿAlī Jaʿfarī Roḡadī, Persian historian and man of letters.
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EBN BOḴTĪŠŪʿ
Lutz Richter-Bernburg
prominent family of physicians of Gondēšāpūr at court during the early ʿAbbasid period.
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EBN DĀʿĪ RĀZĪ, ABŪ TORĀB ṢAFĪ-AL-DĪN MORTAŻĀ
Marco Salami
b. Dāʿī b. Qāsem Rāzī Ḥosaynī (or Ḥasanī), known as ʿAlam-al-Hodā (d. after 1132), Imami traditionist and author of a heresiography in Persian.
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EBN DĀROST, MAJD-AL-WOZARĀʾ MOḤAMMAD
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Manṣūr (d. Ahvā, 1074), vizier to the ʿAbbasid caliph al-Qāʾem from 9 May 1061 to 9 December 1062.
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EBN DĀROST, TĀJ-AL-MOLK ABU’L-ḠANĀʾEM MARZBĀN
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Ḵosrow-Fīrūz Šīrāzī (1046-93), last vizier of the Great Saljuq Sultan Malekšāh.