• Aḥmad ibn Mājid (Arabic: أحمد بن ماجد), also known as the "Arab Admiral" (أمير البحر العربي, ʿAmīr al-Baḥr al-ʿArabī) and the "Lion of the Sea", was an...
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    Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian...
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    Ziai, H.(1997), “Al-Suhrawardi”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Ed., vol. 9: 782-784. Quote: "AL-SUHRAWARDI, SHIHAB AL-DIN YAHYA b. Habash b. Amirak, Abu'1-Futuh...
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    student Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Maʿsumi and al-Biruni has survived in which they debated Aristotelian natural philosophy and the Peripatetic school. al-Biruni...
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    Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri...
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    Several Najdi Wahhabi treatises such as Fath al-Majid by Abdurrahman ibn Hasan Aal al-Shaykh, various Hanbali works, Tathirul A'tekad by Ibn Ismāʿīl al-Amīr...
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    Lewis Majid M. Naini Reynold A. Nicholson James Redhouse Shahriar Shahriari Shahram Shiva Ritter, H.; Bausani, A. "ḎJ̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī b. Bahāʾ al-Dīn Sulṭān...
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    Iranica by Dr. Ahmad Tafazzoli Archived March 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Boylston, Nicholas (2021). "Islam from the Inside Out: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī's...
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    about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layla-Majnun theme passed...
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    Ahmad Ghazālī (Persian: احمد غزالی; full name Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Fotuḥ Aḥmad Ghazālī) was a Sunni Muslim Persian Sufi mystic, writer, preacher and the...
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  • The Ma’arif has been pubhsed under the title "Ma’aref-e Baha al-Din Muhammad b. Jlal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, Manshur beh Sultan Walad, edited by Najib...
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    Wahhabism (redirect from Al-Wahhabiyya)
    Qasim Al-Najdi, 'Abd al-Rahman, ed. (1996). "2: كتاب العقائد" [2: Kitab Al-'Aqaid (Book of Creed)]. الدرر السنية في الأجوبة النجدية [Al-Durar Al-Sunniyya...
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    prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of tafsir (Quranic exegesis), which he produced...
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    which was created by his fellow townsman Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr Bisotun in 1326. In his book Nafahat al-Uns, the Persian poet Jami (died 1492) provides...
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    in Khorasan to a Persian family. Previously his father Nizām al-Dīn Ahmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muhammad had come from Dasht, a small town in the district...
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    translation of Hafez poems.[citation needed] Many Afghan singers, including Ahmad Zahir and Sarban, have composed songs such as "Ay Padeshah-e Khooban", "Gar-Zulfe...
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    Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Ed., vol. 1: 751-755. Excerpt: "ATTAR, FARID AL-DIN MUHAMMAD B. IBRAHIM.Persian mystical poet.Yahiya Emerick (5 February 2008), The...
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    Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi (Persian: سید احمد حکم‌آبادی تبریزی, romanized: Ahmad-e Hokmabadi-ye Tabrizi;‎ 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known...
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    (pdf). Loraine, M. B.; Matīnī, J. (1988). "BAHĀR, MOḤAMMAD-TAQĪ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 5. pp. 476–479. Samiʿi, Ahmad; Melvin-Koushki,...
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  • Jurjani Lokeri Abu Ahmad Kateb Masoudi Marvazi Manteqi Razi al-Biruni (973–c. 1050) Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (d. 1037) Asad...
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    predecessor, Ahmad Samani (r. 907–914). Rudaki's success was largely due to the support of his primary patron, the vizier Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami (died...
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    Rahmanian illustrated a new English translation of the Shahnameh (translated by Ahmad Sadri) creating new imagery from old manuscripts. Scholarly editions have...
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    Persia’s finest creator of romantic epics. Hakim Jamal al-din Abu Muhammad Ilyas b. Yusuf b. Zaki b. Mu’ayyad Nizami a native of Ganja in Azarbaijan, is...
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  • Bakr 'Abdollāh b. Moḥammad b. Šahāvar b. Anūšervān al-Rāzī (Persian: نجم‌الدین رازی) commonly known by the laqab, or sobriquet, of Najm al-Dīn Dāya, meaning...
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    p. 404. Ahmad Ali, Dr. Saeed (2023). "Realms of spiritual thought: Iqbal's concept of selfhood 'Khudi' encompassing youth's ideology". Ahmad Parray, Tauseef...
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    ʿAbdollāh; Meythamī, Ḥossein; Mīranṣārī, ʿAlī; Nekuruḥ, Ḥasan; Pākatchī, Aḥmad; Baḵš-e Honar-o-Memārī (2011), "Ḥāfeẓ", in Mousavī Bojnūrdī, Moḥammad kāẓem...
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    blasphemy, If I mentioned any other Paradise, I'd be worse than a dog. In 1991, Ahmad Saidi (1904–1994) produced an English translation of 165 quatrains grouped...
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    šhab (هزار و یک شب), or, in distorted Arabic, Alf al-leil. Muhammad Baqir Khurasani Buzanjirdi (b.1770) finalized his translation in 1814, patronized...
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    is a Persian prose work of 13th century Sufi mystic and Iranian poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. The book has 72 short discourses. According to J. M. Sadeghi...
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    Jamalzadeh Sadeq Hedayat Sadeq Chubak Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi Ahmad Mahmoud Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Simin Daneshvar Bozorg Alavi Ebrahim Golestan Bahman Sholevar...
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