• Hamza ibn al-Hasan [ibn] al-Mu'addib al-Isfahani (Arabic: حمزه الاصفهانی; c. 893 – after 961), commonly known as Hamza al-Isfahani (or Hamza Isfahani;...
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  • The name Al-Isfahani is a nisba indicating someone from the city of Isfahan, Iran. People with this name include: Hamza al-Isfahani (d. 961), Persian historian...
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    twelve or thirteen foundations. Persian sources such as al-Tabari, al-Dinawari, Hamza al-Isfahani, and Qudama ascribe between nine and twelve settlements...
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    Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (Arabic: أبو الفرج الأصفهاني), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad...
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  • Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (أبـو نـعـيـم الأصـفـهـانـي; full name: Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī (or al-Asfahānī)...
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    and also of Constantine the Great. Some Persian writers such as Hamza al-Isfahani or Al-Tabari, called Basil a Saqlabi, an ethnogeographic term that usually...
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    Azerbaijan. The same definition is found in the works of al-Khawazmi and Hamza al-Isfahani. Al-Dinawari, while not using the word Parthia, considered Jibal...
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    village of Thil in Taron. In contrast, Persian writers such as Hamza al-Isfahani, or al-Tabari, call both Basil and his mother Saqlabi, an ethnogeographic...
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    from the older form Wēw, which was still in use by Hamza al-Isfahani (died after 961) in his Mujmal al-tawarikh. Giv brought Kay Khosrow back from Turan...
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  • Abul-Qasim al-Hussein bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad, better known as Raghib [Raaghib] Isfahani (Persian: ابوالقاسم حسین ابن محمّد الراغب الاصفهانی), was an...
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  • spiritual successor was Hamza al-Isfahani (died after 961). The tenth century biographical encyclopaedia, al-Fihrist written by Al-Nadim, lists sixteen book...
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  • century as he first appears in the account of the Persian historian Hamza al-Isfahani (died after 961). Khatibi & Negahban 2013. Khatibi, Abolfazl; Negahban...
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    Astrolabe (redirect from Ibn al-Sarraj)
    a direct translation of the Greek word. Al-Biruni quotes and criticises medieval scientist Hamza al-Isfahani who stated: "asturlab is an arabisation of...
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  • medieval historian Hamzeh Isfahani when talking about Sassanid Iran. Hamzeh Isfahani writes in the book Al-Tanbih ‘ala Hoduth alTashif that five "tongues"...
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  • is mentioned as the wife of Shapur by the 10th-century historian Hamza al-Isfahani. Sundermann, W. (1988). "BĀNBIŠN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia...
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  • ruin. Mansur bin Yakup Han is buried in the Ulu Mosque in Malatya. Hamza al-Isfahani wrote about 12.000 Musicians from India who was taken by Bahram Gur...
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    Rey, Isfahan al-Masʿūdī: Azerbaijan, Masabadhan, Dinawar, Nihawand, Hamadan Hamza al-Isfahani: Azerbaijan, Nihawand, Hamadan, Rey, Isfahan al-Muqaddasi:...
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    philosopher and physician Isfahani, Imad al-Din (1125–1201) historian and rhetorician Isfahani, Jalaleddin (19th century), physician Isfahani, Husayn (15th century)...
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    will collaborate with Saoshyants. Some Islamic era authors such as Hamza al-Isfahani and Ibn Balkhi considered him a prophet. He is the son of Siyavash...
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    Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent...
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    medieval historian al-Tabari (d. 923), Bahram was the son of Shapur II (r. 309–379). However, several other historians, such as Hamza al-Isfahani (d. after 961)...
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    manuscripts. At least three Islamic scholars, al-Biruni, Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, and Hamza al-Isfahani, have named this hidden library in their works...
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    work in the same style as that of the now lost history of Isfahan by Hamza al-Isfahani (died after 961). Drechsler 2005. Drechsler, Andreas (2005). "Tāriḵ-e...
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    audience sessions. According to the medieval historians Ibn al-Balkhi and Hamza al-Isfahani, he was known as "Yazdegerd the Gentle" (Yazdegerd-e Narm)...
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  • (approximate date) Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler (or 894) Hamza al-Isfahani, Persian historian (approximate date) Li Hao, Chinese official and...
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    successors and the Byzantines. The works of the 10th-century historian Hamza al-Isfahani also contribute details to the reconstruction of the Salihids' fall...
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    Afghanistan. This hypothesis is supported by the Perso-Islamic authors al-Tabari, Hamza al-Isfahani, and Qudama ibn Ja'far, who record that Herat was founded by...
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    and very captivating woman. According to the 10th-century historian Hamza al-Isfahani, the now lost book of Kitāb ṣuwar molūk Banī Sāsān ("The Sasanian...
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  • He was called Saxt in the accounts of the 10th-century historian Hamza al-Isfahani. The Frataraka rulers of Persis were local rulers subject to the Seleucid...
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    944/5. However, according to another contemporary historian, Hamza al-Isfahani, Abd al-Malik was born in 936, which would have made him 19 at the time...
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