• Abu Zayd al-Balkhi? Malik Badri, introduction to Sustenance of the Soul, Gutenberg Press al-Balkhī, Abū Zayd; Badri, Malik (2013), "Who was Abū Zayd al-Balkhī...
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  • Abu Zayd or Arabic: أبو زيد, alternatively transliterated as Abizaid, is an Arabic name and may refer to: Abu Zayd may refer to: Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥman...
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  • astrologer, astronomer and Islamic philosopher Abu-Shakur Balkhi (915-?), Persian poet Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850-934), Persian geographer, mathematician,...
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    Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي;‎ 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي)...
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    medicine, linking changes in mental state to changes in the body. Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850-934) was a Muslim psychologist and physician during the Islamic...
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  • notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Muhammad al-Idrisi. Islamic geography...
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    sources. Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), founder of the Balkhī school of cartography in Baghdad, wrote an atlas called Figures of the Regions (Suwar al-aqalim)...
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  • in the preface of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm. He belonged to the school known as the "atlas of Islam", inaugurated by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (d. 934) and developed by...
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    Zaydism (Arabic: الزَّيْدِيَّة, romanized: az-Zaydiyya) is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd...
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    artists survive. As he was a follower of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, this style of map-making is often referred to as the "Balkhī school", or the "Classical School"...
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    eldest son, the equally quiescent Muhammad al-Baqir. Some others followed Muhammad's much younger half-brother, Zayd ibn Ali, whose rebellion was crushed by...
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    Zakariyya' al-Qazwini (full name: Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī, Arabic: أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known...
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  • Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri was born in Nishapur, Khorasan, in modern-day Iran. He began his career studying under Abu Zayd al-Balkhi in Khurasan, before...
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  • included: al-Bukhari Abū Rajā’ Qutaybah ibn Sa‘īd al-Balkhī al-Baghlāni ‘Alī ibn Ḥujr ibn Iyās as-Sa‘dī al-Marwazī Muḥammad ibn Bashshār al-Baṣrī ‘Abd...
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    Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab...
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    House of Wisdom in Baghdad for this purpose. Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, originally from Balkh, founded the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Suhrāb...
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    Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali...
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  • 5229 from Yāqūt's quotations.] al-Faqih, Ibn; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān; Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil Abū Dulaf al-Khazrajī; Fuat Sezgin; M. Amawi;...
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  • Zayd ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: زيد بن علي; 695–740), also spelled Zaid, was the son of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib...
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  • al-Abbas. Al-Sadiq maintained his father's policy of quietism in this period and, in particular, was not involved in the uprising of his uncle, Zayd,...
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    have three sons—Abū Saʿīd, Fak̲h̲r al-Dīn and Ḥusām al-Dīn — and one daughter, Bībī Jamāl. It is generally accepted that besides Abū Saʿīd sons are believed...
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  • given below: In the early 10th century, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, a Persian originally from Balkh, founded the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad...
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    predecessor, al-Sajjad. In particular, some traditions of Abu Hamza attribute miracles to al-Baqir. Al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadi was a poet supporter of al-Baqir...
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    Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699–767) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the...
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  • used the work of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, the Figures of the Regions (Suwar al-aqalim), and thus he belonged to the Balkhī school. The Balkhī school also included...
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  • described in a lost book by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (dating from c. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers (Ibn Hawqal, Al-Istakhri, Hudud ul-'alam)...
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  • adherent to Manichaeism, according to Ibn al-Nadim. During his early career, Jayhani was a student of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, and used to give him female slaves...
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    may have arisen from confusion between the caliph and another Abū Bakr, Šams-al-Aʾemma Abū Bakr Saraḵsī (d. 483/1090), the well-known Hanafite jurist, whose...
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  • cosmonaut Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Tajik polymath Rumi, scholar and poet Avicenna, Tajik polymath, physician and philosopher Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Tajik astrologer...
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    Qarmatians (redirect from Al-Qaramita)
    executed in the same year. But the ruling sons of Abū Sa'īd al-Jannābī themselves did not survive much longer. Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad died in 359/970, probably of poisoning...
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