Encyclopaedia Islamica, Volume 1 A – Abū Ḥanīfa
Brill in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the first of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
The Encyclopaedia Islamica is available in print and at Brill Online.
ʿAbāʾ
Abābīl
Ābādah
Ābādān
Abān b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Lāḥiqī
Abān b. Taghlib
Abāqā Khān
Abarqūh
ʿAbasa Mahdi Muti‘ (Farzin Negahban)
Ābaskūn
Al-ʿAbbādī, Abū ʿĀṣim
ʿAbbādī, Muẓaffar
ʿAbbādids
ʿAbbās I, Shāh
ʿAbbās II, Shāh
Al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
ʿAbbās b. Abī al-Futūḥ
Al-ʿAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf
Al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī
Al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAmr al-Ghanawī
ʿAbbās b. Firnās
ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II
Al-ʿAbbās b. Mirdās
ʿAbbās Mīrzā
ʿAbbās Pasha
ʿAbbāsa (a woman of the ʿAbbāsid court)
ʿAbbāsa (a city in eastern Egypt)
Al-ʿAbbāsī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm
ʿAbbāsids
ʿAbbāsiyya
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿĀmir b. Kurayz
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAbd Allāh Bukhārī
ʿAbd Allāh b. Dhakwān
ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥanẓala
ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasan, Abū Muḥammad
ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar
ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaḥsh
ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Kawwāʾ
ʿAbd Allāh b. Khāzim
ʿAbd Allāh b. Lahīʿa
ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ
ʿAbd Allāh b. Muʿāwiya
ʿAbd Allāh b. Mūsā b. Nuṣayr
ʿAbd Allāh b. Muskān
ʿAbd Allāh b. Muṭīʿ
ʿAbd Allāh b. Rawāḥa
ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿd
ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām
ʿAbd Allāh Shīrāzī
ʿAbd Allāh b. Sinān
ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar
ʿAbd Allāh b. Wahb al-Rāsibī
ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr
ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Rawwād
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿUthmānī
ʿAbd al-Dār, Banū
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Azdī
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī
ʿAbd al-Ḥakam
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd I (Abdülhamid)
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā (al-Kātib)
ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Amānat Khān
ʿAbd al-Karīm Khwārazmī
ʿAbd al-Karīm Munshī
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf
ʿAbd al-Majīd I (Abdülmecit)
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
ʿAbd al-Malik I
ʿAbd Manāf
ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim
ʿAbd al-Nabī
ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Jazāʾirī
ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangūhī
ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khān-i Khānān
ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Khwārazmī
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAwf
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khwārazmī
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Shīrāzī
ʿAbd Shams
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd al-Baṣrī
ʿAbda b. al-Ṭabīb
Abdāl
Abdāl Beg
Abdāl Chishtī
Abdālī
ʿAbdān
Al-ʿAbdarī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad
ʿAbdī Pāshā (Abdi Paşa) (1)
ʿAbdī Pāshā (Abdi Paşa) (2)
Abhar
Al-Ābī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Naṣīr al-Dīn
Al-Ābī, Abū Saʿd Manṣūr b. al-Ḥusayn
Abīward
Al-Abīwardī
Abjad
Abjadī
Abkhazia (Abkhāz)
Al-Ablah al-Baghdādī
Abnāʾ
Abr
Abraha
Abraham
Ābrang
Al-Abrār
Abrī
Al-Abṭaḥ
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Isfarāyinī
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Mursī
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sayyārī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAlawī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shīʿī
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zanjānī
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī
Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ʿAṭāʾ b. Yaʿqūb Ghaznawī Rāzī
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Bihishtī
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
Abū ʿAlī Ardistānī
Abū ʿAlī Balkhī
Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq
Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī
Abū ʿAlī al-Fārmadī
Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh
Abū ʿAlī Sīmjūr
Abū al-ʿĀliya
Abū ʿAlqama
Abū ʿAmmār
Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī
Abū ʿAmr b. Nujayd
Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī
Abū al-ʿĀṣ
Abū al-Aswad al-Duʾalī
Abū al-Aswār Shāwur
Abū al-ʿAtāhiya
Abū ʿAwāna
Abū ʿAwn
Abū al-ʿAynāʾ
Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
Abū Ayyūb al-Mūriyānī
Abū Bakr
Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad al-Marwazī
Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh
Abū Bakr Ḥaṣīrī
Abū Bakr b. Ḥazm
Abū Bakr al-Khwārazmī
Abū Bakr Quhistānī
Abū Bakr al-Sijistānī
Abū Bakr Ṭihrānī
Abū Bakr al-Warrāq
Abū Bakra
Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Kaffawī
Abū al-Baqāʾ al-ʿUkbarī
Abū al-Barakāt
Abū Barza
Abū Baṣīr
Abū al-Bayān
Abū Dahbal al-Jumaḥī
Abū al-Dardāʾ
Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī
Abū Dharr al-Harawī
Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī
Abū Duʾād al-Iyādī
Abū Dulaf al-ʿIjlī
Abū Dulaf (Mosque)
Abū Dulaf, Misʿar b. Muhalhil
Abū al-Dunyā
Abū al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī
Abū al-Faḍl al-Sarakhsī
Abū al-Faḍl Sāwajī
Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī
Abū al-Faraj al-Maghribī
Abū al-Faraj b. Masʿūd al-Rūnī
Abū al-Faraj b. al-Ṭayyib
Abū al-Fatḥ Bahādur Khān Zand
Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī
Abū al-Fatḥ al-Daylamī
Abū al-Fatḥ Gīlānī
Abū al-Fatḥ Ḥusaynī
Abū al-Fatḥ al-Iṣfahānī
Abū al-Fatḥ Khān Bakhtiyārī
Abū al-Fatḥ Khān Jawānshīr
Abū al-Fidāʾ
Abū Firās
Abū Fudayk
Abū al-Futūḥ al-ʿIjlī
Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī
Abū Ghānim al-Khurāsānī
Abū al-Ghayth al-Qashshāsh
Abū al-Ghāzī Bahādur Khān
Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ḥaddād
Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Ballūṭī
Abū Ḥāmid al-Gharnāṭī
Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī
Abū Ḥamza al-Khārijī
Abū Ḥamza al-Thumālī (the duʿāʾ of )
Abū Ḥamza al-Thumālī
Abū Ḥanīfa
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Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver Shi‘ism, Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.