Encyclopaedia Islamica

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Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the 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. A unique feature of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, Encyclopaedia Islamica Online offers the Western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilization, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.

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List of Authors

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Abbas Abdollah Garousi: Barāhūyī (Brahui) Abbas Mosallayi-pour: al-Bayḍāwī; ʿAlī b. Maymūn Abbas Saidi: Abū al-Khaṣīb Abbas Zaryab: Abāqā Khān; Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī; Abū ʿĪsā al-Warrāq; Abū Saʿīd Gūrakān; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī; Ādharbāyjān Abbasali Ahmadi: Darb-i Imām Abd al-Amir Jaberizadeh: Abū Shimr (or Shamir) al-Murjiʾ; al-Basawī; Bajaliyya Abdol-Amir Salim: Abū al-ʿĀliya; Abū al-Dardāʾ; Abū al-Futūḥ al-ʿIjlī; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Jurjānī; Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī; Abū Ḥudhayfa; Abū ʿĪsā al-Iṣfahānī; Abū Umāma al-Bāhilī; Adhān and iqāma; Anas b. Mālik Abdolhamid Moradi…
Source: Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date: 2021-04-15

List of Entries

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List of Entries Article Author (translator) Bābā Afḍal Morteza Gharaee Garakani (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Faraj Tabrīzī Masoud Jalali-Moqaddam (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Farīd al-Dīn Ganj Shikar Gholam-Ali Arya (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Ilyās Khurāsānī Jalal Khosroshahi (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Jān Ḥāfiẓ-i Turbatī Mohammad Hassan Semsar (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Kamāl-i Jandī Stephen Hirtenstein Bābā Luqmān, Mausoleum Mahbanoo Alizadeh (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Qāsim, Mausoleum Yadollah Gholami (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Rukn al-Dīn Shīrāzī Mohammad Javad Shams (…
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LIST OF ENTRIES

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Article Author (translator) al-Bīrūnī Younes Karamati (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bishr al-Ḥāfī Hussein La-Shay’ (Farzin Negahban) Bishr al-Marīsī Naser Gozashteh (Mushegh Asatryan) Bishr b. al-Muʿtamir Mohammad Javad Anvari (Keven Brown) Bishr b. al-Sarī Mohammad Kazem Alavi (Najam Abbas) Bismil Shīrāzī Ali Mir-Ansari (Keven Brown) Bīsutūn Ali Karam Hamedani (Rahim Gholami) Bīzhan wa Manīzhah Abolfazl Khatibi (Dominic Parviz Brookshaw) Blue Mosque of Tabrīz Isabel Miller Bohra Farhad Daftary Brotherhood Farhang Mehrvash, Sadeq Sajjadi (Farzin Negahban) Budayl b. Warqāʾ M…
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List of Entries Bābā Afḍal-Bīrjandī

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Article Author (translator) Bābā Afḍal Morteza Gharaee Garakani (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Faraj Tabrīzī Masoud Jalali-Moqaddam (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Farīd al-Dīn Ganj Shikar Gholam-Ali Arya (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Ilyās Khurāsānī Jalal Khosroshahi (Farzin Negahban) Bābā Jān Ḥāfiẓ-i Turbatī Mohammad Hassan Semsar (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Kamāl-i Jandī Stephen Hirtenstein Bābā Luqmān, Mausoleum Mahbanoo Alizadeh (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Qāsim, Mausoleum Yadollah Gholami (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Bābā Rukn al-Dīn Shīrāzī Mohammad Javad Shams (Farzin Negahban) B…
Source: Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date: 2021-06-17

List of Entries Dāgh-Fāṭimids

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Article Author (translator) Dāgh, and Dāgh Kardan Ali A. Bulookbashi (Alexander Khaleeli) Dāʿī Shīrāzī Meysam Solgi (Mushegh Asatryan) Dāʾira, Daf Narges Zaker Jafari (Farzin Negahban) Dajjāl Farhang Mehrvash (Farzin Negahban) Dakkanī, Shāh ʿAlī-Riḍā Zahra Hosseini (Keven Brown) Damascus Mohammad Reza Naji, Ahmad Pakatchi and Russell Harris (Mushegh Asatryan and Alexander Khaleeli) Damāwand Shahram Khodaverdian (Alireza Sameti) Daniel Russell Harris Daqīqī, Abū Manṣūr Ali Mir-Ansari and Yadollah Shokri (Farshid Kazemi) Dār al-Funūn Seyyed Ali Al-i Davud (Abuzar A…
Source: Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date: 2018-09-19

List of Illustrations

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Volume 1Fig. 1: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Shīrāzī, Majnūn in the Desert (958/1551), Muraqqaʿ-i Gulshān, p. 158 (with kind permission of The Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran).Fig. 2: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Shīrāzī, Dervish’s Awakening (10th/16th century), Muraqqaʿ-i Gulshān, p. 63 (with kind permission of The Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran).Fig. 3: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Shīrāzī, Banquet of Humāyūn and Akbar Shāh (10th/16th century), Muraqqaʿ-i Gulshān, p. 70 (with kind permission of The Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran).Fig. 4: Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad al-Marwazī, brass cauldron (© Ethnographic Colle…
Source: Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date: 2021-04-15

List of Translators

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Abuzar Ahmadi: Dār al-Funūn; Dawāzdah Imām; Dīwān al-ʿArḍ; Epic (ḥamāsa); Evil eye Alexander Khaleeli: Abū al-Qāsim Findiriskī; al-Bāṭirqānī; al-Bursī; al-Bustī, Abū al-Qāsim; al-Dāraquṭnī; al-Dawr wa al-tasalsul; al-Dīnawarī, Abū Ḥanīfa; al-Faḍl b. Shādhān; al-Fārābī; al-Farghānī; al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ; al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh; al-Ḥāmidī; al-Ḥasan b. Nūḥ; al-Ḥasan b. Nūh al-Qamarī; al-Ḥasan b. Sahl; al-Ḥaskānī; al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī; al-Ḥurr b. Yazīd al-Riyāḥī; al-Ḥuwayzī; Bakr b. Wāʾil; Banū Isrāʾīl; Bazīghiyya; B…
Source: Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date: 2021-04-15